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Potential Win for Northern Arizona Oct 14, 2015 12:20:32 GMT -8 johnnyray likes this

Post by desert dweller on Oct 14, 2015 12:20:32 GMT -8

Arizona Daily Star
October 12, 2015 5:35 pm • By FELICIA FONSECA

The proposed 1.7 million-acre monument is a mix of towering cliffs and canyons, grasslands, forest and desert that is popular with hunters, hikers, ranchers and other recreationists. It also includes 1 million acres rich in uranium ore that is temporarily banned from the filing of new mining claims. Grijalva, environmentalists and tribes want to make that ban permanent but have faced stiff opposition from Republicans and the mining industry.

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starwalker Trail Wise! Posts: 1,093	Potential Win for Northern Arizona Oct 14, 2015 12:46:12 GMT -8 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by starwalker on Oct 14, 2015 12:46:12 GMT -8 I'd like to see it, but I don't think it will fly with the current House of Representatives we have.
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Potential Win for Northern Arizona Oct 14, 2015 12:52:00 GMT -8

Post by johnnyray on Oct 14, 2015 12:52:00 GMT -8

I think the President can declare it a National Monument which won't sit well with the GOP at all . In fact one of the reasons the LWCF was allowed to expire is because Rep. Ron Bishop (R) UT. wanted language to restrict the Presidents office from further use of the Antiquities Act to create Monuments, at least that's my understanding.

Lamebeaver Trail Wise! Posts: 10,431	Potential Win for Northern Arizona Oct 14, 2015 13:04:32 GMT -8 Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Lamebeaver on Oct 14, 2015 13:04:32 GMT -8 Oct 14, 2015 12:46:12 GMT -8 starwalker said: I'd like to see it, but I don't think it will fly with the current House of Representatives we have. Maybe if they called it McKinley National Monument.......
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