Back in the United States, the Trump administration is planning to shrink 10 national monuments and open them up to mining, logging, drilling and other forms of extraction. A leaked memo from Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke shows the plan would cut hundreds of thousands—or perhaps millions—of acres from protected reserves, including Utah’s Bears Ears and Nevada’s Gold Butte National Monuments. The plan would also open the Rose Atoll and the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monuments to commercial fishing.
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