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Ryan Zinke: Why we shrunk the monuments - CNN
>The Antiquities Act is not a weapon for presidents to arbitrarily restrict the uses of hundreds of thousands of acres of land to prevent uses like timber harvesting and cattle grazing -- ways of life for many American families and the lifeblood of many local economies. It is also not a tool for presidents to use to restrict access for outdoor recreation on land that belongs to all of us.<
To paraphrase: "we shrank the monuments to stick one in the eye of President Obama, and to allow that land to be plundered by our oil and ranch money donors."
>The Antiquities Act is not a weapon for presidents to arbitrarily restrict the uses of hundreds of thousands of acres of land to prevent uses like timber harvesting and cattle grazing -- ways of life for many American families and the lifeblood of many local economies. It is also not a tool for presidents to use to restrict access for outdoor recreation on land that belongs to all of us.<
To paraphrase: "we shrank the monuments to stick one in the eye of President Obama, and to allow that land to be plundered by our oil and ranch money donors."