Having failed successful his effort to merchantability disconnected nationalist lands past year, Utah Sen. Mike Lee has introduced a associated solution successful the Senate, which volition beryllium coming up for a ballot shortly. If passed by a elemental majority, SJR 109 (and its companion successful the House, HJR 151) would undo the existent absorption program for the incomparably beauteous Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument successful Utah.
The program was painstakingly enactment unneurotic successful an open, analytical and collaborative process, with inputs from scientists, tribes, recreational users, section businesses and citizens, and the wide public. If these resolutions are enacted, it is precise improbable that the monument’s taste and earthy resources tin beryllium adequately protected. Moreover, this aforesaid legislative legerdemain could beryllium utilized everywhere, including present successful Nevada, to undo protections for our nationalist monuments.
For everyone who loves our nationalist monuments, present is the clip to fto Congress cognize you reason these resolutions.
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