Interior Secry. Ryan Zinke launches process to roll back Obama monument decision

Source: Washington Examiner | May 5, 2017 | John Siciliano

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke launches a four-day listening tour on Sunday to gather input on whether or not to do away with some of former President Barack Obama’s more controversial decisions on expanding national monuments.

The listening tour will begin in Utah at the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in launching the four-day effort, the Interior Department announced Friday.

Both of the monuments are under review as ordered by President Trump’s executive order to determine whether to roll back or modify Obama’s decisions.

Zinke is tasked to review the decisions and determine if the government had adequately consulted with groups affected by the decisions and how the expansion of monuments discourages public lands use.

Obama made the decision to expand the Bears Ears monument by 1.5 million acres in the waning days of his administration. The large expansion of the monument raised the ire of Utah Republicans, who have since called on President Trump to reverse the decision.

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