Sentences with phrase «national monument designations»

August 18, 2016 • National monument designations that bypass Congress are hugely controversial.

The national monument designation eventually will ban all commercial and recreational fishing within its borders.

The national monument designation comes with a mandate for more funding for law enforcement, which means more eyes on the ground to keep fossil thieves at bay and more money for education «so that people know there are fossils out there,» Gay says.

The national monument designation would prohibit new mining operations, and the mine's owner, Energy Fuels, is seeking to expand the mine from its current 2 hectares to about 19 hectares.

Dear EarthTalk: What is the status of Hawaiian monk seals and how will the new national monument designation in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands affect them?

For Vernon Lee of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a national monument designation for Gold Butte would be the next best thing to having the U.S. government return the land to his people.

We are sure that national monument designation will help us here,» said Michael Hanchett, owner of the Cavalier Oceanfront Resort and President of the San Simeon Chamber of Commerce.

Well before the national monument designation, Browns Canyon had become the most popular stretch of whitewater in the U.S..

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President Trump is expected to sign several executive orders this week, ahead of his 100th day in office on Saturday, including one aimed at reviewing the prior designations by presidents of «National Monuments.»

Slamming what he called «a massive federal land grab,» Trump signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands.

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There is a sharp contrast between the intense public debate that preceded President Obama's designation of the Bears Ears National Monument and President Clinton's stealth designation of the Grand Staircase - Escalante monument.

Livestock grazing is permitted to continue in national monuments and wilderness areas if these practices existed prior to designation.