JakeStarkey
Diamond Member
- Aug 10, 2009
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Bears Ear, of course. He also lies when he says the monuments hurt the local economies, when in fact they have been a boon to local businesses and employees. Of the 8,000 Native Americans in [San Juan] county (half the population) opponents have only been able to rustle up a few dozen voicing opposition. The Bears Ears Inter-tribal coalition has fought for the monument designation and represents 30 tribes, including the Navajos which make up most of San Juan.
The far right business knife is in to give federal lands to extraction industries and wealthy people.
"Any perceived benefits from the designation of huge landscape monuments need to be weighed against the impacts suffered by those who have traditionally used the lands," Kathleen Clarke, the former Bureau of Land Management director and now head of the Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office, told a House Natural Resources subcommittee. "Landscapes don't disappear, but jobs and artifacts do."
Clarke joined a chorus of Republicans in blasting the Antiquities Act, which President Barack Obama used in late December to name the 1.35 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. She also told the congressional committee that the 1996 designation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has impaired the area's economy.
National monuments harm the economy, Utah public lands official tells Congress
The far right business knife is in to give federal lands to extraction industries and wealthy people.
"Any perceived benefits from the designation of huge landscape monuments need to be weighed against the impacts suffered by those who have traditionally used the lands," Kathleen Clarke, the former Bureau of Land Management director and now head of the Utah Public Lands Policy Coordinating Office, told a House Natural Resources subcommittee. "Landscapes don't disappear, but jobs and artifacts do."
Clarke joined a chorus of Republicans in blasting the Antiquities Act, which President Barack Obama used in late December to name the 1.35 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah. She also told the congressional committee that the 1996 designation of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has impaired the area's economy.
National monuments harm the economy, Utah public lands official tells Congress
