"BLANDING, UTAH -- Powerful Republican congressmen and governors are pressing President Donald Trump to take an unprecedented step: Reverse his predecessor’s creation of several national monuments under a law that dates back to Theodore Roosevelt.
No president has ever attempted such a reversal, and legal experts doubt it could succeed.
'If they go down that road, it is a very, very difficult path,' said John Ruple, an expert on public lands at the University of Utah College of Law in Salt Lake City.
In Utah, Gov. Gary Herbert and key members of the GOP delegation – including Jason Chaffetz, who heads the House Oversight Committee – want Trump to roll back the 1.35-million-acre Bears Ears National Monument, which Barack Obama created in late December. GOP leaders in Maine are pressing Trump to reverse another Obama conservation designation – the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, created from 87,500 acres of donated forestland."
Stuart Leavenworth reports for McClatchy March 21, 2017.
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"Native Americans Prepare To Battle Trump Over Utah National Monument" (McClatchy)
