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Your Senator Has Called For a Massive National Monument Designation in Utah!

Send an Email to Your Senator Who Supports Designation Urging Him or Her to Reconsider ➨

Recently 14 Senators, none of whom are from Utah, wrote President Obama urging him to designate 1.8 million acres of the Greater Canyonlands in Utah as a National Monument.  The letter stated, “…we write to encourage you to consider using your authority under the Antiquities Act to declare Greater Canyonlands a national monument.” One of these Senators was from your state!

Please send an email letting your Senator know that massive, inappropriate National Monument designations are not the way forward in Utah or elsewhere.

You may recall that ARRA alerted you about a letter that non-motorized recreation organizations sent to President Obama roughly a year and a half ago. That group was urging the designation of 1.4 million acres in the Greater Canyonlands as a National Monument.  The new letter signed by Senators from states such as Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont calls for President Obama to designate an additional 400,000 acres more than asked for in the original letter.  Never mind that just the 400,000 additional acres alone are more than half the size of the entire state of Rhode Island.  Where does it stop?

Also, keep in mind that there is an ongoing process in the Eastern part of Utah known as the Public Lands Initiative about which the Moab Sun News recently reported:

“In what has in recent months seemed to be an unbridgeable divide, there are signs of growing consensus between the Grand County Council and representatives from the recreation industry in developing a land-use recommendation for Congressman Rob Bishop’s (R-Utah) Utah Public Lands Initiative.”

Today responsible recreation is being jeopardized in Utah – tomorrow it might be your state!

The 14 Senators who want to forgo an ongoing existing local process in favor of a unilateral designation from Washington, D.C. are:

Dick Durbin (D-IL), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ed Markey (D-MA), Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Patty Murray (D-WA), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Bernie Sanders (D-VT).

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