Should Trump eliminate these beautiful national monuments? Here’s your chance to weigh in.:
YOU CAN COMMENT HERE. As of right now there’s only 10k. Public comments close May 26th so get on this shit while you can.
These are the places up for consideration:
Basin and Range
Bears Ears
Berryessa Snow Mountain
Canyons of the Ancients
Carrizo Plain
Cascade Siskiyou
Craters of the Moon
Giant Sequoia
Gold Butte
Grand Canyon-ParashantGrand Staircase-Escalante
Hanford Reach
Ironwood Forest
Mojave Trails
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks
Rio Grande del Norte
Sand to Snow
San Gabriel Mountains
Sonoran Desert
Upper Missouri River
Vermilion Cliffs
Katahadin Woods
Marianas Trench
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts
Pacific Remote Islands
Papahanaumokuakea
Rose AtollCOME ON PEOPLE. TELL THEM WHY THESE NATIONAL MONUMENTS MATTER TO YOU. If people can leave 50k comments about why the EPA should keep regulations, and crash the FCC’s website over net neutrality, you can bring it for our national monuments.
Our national monuments are part of the national parks system, and include both protected wilderness and protected cultural and historical landmarks (including, surprise surprise, sites significant to indigenous cultures).
They are important not only for the sake of nostalgia, national pride and beauty–although all of those are valuable in their own right–but also for the sake of anthropology, American history, environmental science and biodiversity. These sites are often of great scientific interest, housing
rare species and natural phenomena,
battlefields, and some of the oldest human settlements in the Americas.
The locations on this list didn’t become federally protected as a lark. Most of them were added to this list thanks to a great public outcry, because experience had proven that nothing less was sufficient to protect them.
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