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U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said on Thursday he has sent recommendations from his review of more than two dozen national monuments to President Donald Trump, indicating that some could be scaled back to allow for more hunting and fishing and economic development.
The recommendations follow a 120-day study of 27 national monuments across the country, created by presidents since 1996, that Trump ordered in April as part of his broader effort to increase development on federal lands.
The review has cheered energy, mining, ranching and timber advocates but has drawn widespread criticism and threats of lawsuits from conservation groups and the outdoor recreation industry.
There were fears that Zinke would recommend the outright elimination of some of the monuments on the list, but on Thursday, speaking to the Associated Press in Billings, Montana, he said he will not recommend eliminating any.
Zinke said in a statement that the recommendations would "provide a much needed change for the local communities who border and rely on these lands for hunting and fishing, economic development, traditional uses, and recreation." He did not specify which monuments he plans to recommend be scaled back.
The Associated Press reported that Zinke said he would recommend changing the boundaries for a "handful" of sites.
If you're taking millions of acres off the table for one site, you fail at knowing the definition of a monument.
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-interior-monuments-idUSKCN1B41YA
Also at RT, CNN, The Washington Post and The Hill.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Saturday September 02 2017, @09:06AM (1 child)
Yes, mercenary bastards that only are motivated by greed, true capitalists, who cannot understand, much like yourself, the value of learning and scholarship, even if it leads to no pecuniary renumeration. Those people are no loss, they could not teach if they tried. Unless they got an endowed chair at Trump University!!! Ah, khallow, you should stick to the tarbaby of climate change! The mechanics of education, I fear, are beyond you. And I say this with the greatest respect.
Tenured Professor/Business World= Too Big To Fail? Trite comparisons are not doing you any favors. Tenure exists to protect teachers from reductionist one-dimensional thinkers like you. Do you think Sir Issac Newton earned his keep at Oxford? Did Einstein actually do anything at Princeton? Why wasn't Ward Churchill allowed to follow out the implications of his theories at that Colorado university? We will never know, now, what he might have discovered. But you totally misunderstand tenure, if you think it is about a "guarantee of a job". Philistine! Sometimes I wonder about you, khallow. The rest of the time, I know, and it grieves me.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday September 02 2017, @01:56PM
Whatever. My take is that most current teachers are just as mercenary, they just don't have the options outside of education that more competent people do.
Too Big To Fail is a lot of work. Got to network those connections, show up at the events, make the perfunctory, public rituals of contrition. Meanwhile tenure is show up to class, don't do blatant misdeeds, and they can't fire you. Not everyone is keen on working hard for a zillion dollars.
Yes, yes, and glaring research misconduct. But you do realize that there's been more than three people with tenure over the past few centuries? Not every one of them has been a Newton or Einstein, or brought on the college's opprobrium like Churchill did.