President Plans to Visit CA Desert in Move to Designate Massive National Monument
Administration officials have
accepted Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-CA) invitation to visit the
California Desert and will attend a public meeting on Tuesday, October 13,
and consider designating 1 million acres in the area as National
Monuments. Senator Feinstein also has pending legislation which would
not only address the area being considered for National Monument
designation, but would also statutorily designate 5 OHV areas.
It is inappropriate for the Administration to even consider a National
Monument designation in the area as Feinstein’s collaboratively
developed legislation is moving in the Senate (a legislative hearing is
scheduled on the bill on October 8), and Representative Paul Cook (R-CA) has recently introduced companion legislation in the House.
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Background:
As it stands, the Antiquities Act of 1906 grants the President the
authority to designate “…historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric
structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that
are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the
United States to be national monuments.” The Antiquities Act also
holds that national monuments should be “…confined to the smallest area
compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be
protected…,” yet Presidents of both parties have, in our view,
inappropriately designated enormous swaths of public lands as national
monuments.
Too often when widespread local and Congressional support to designate
public lands as Wilderness cannot be established, Wilderness proponents
turn to a strategy of calling for the President to achieve similar goals
by administratively designating the area as a National Monument. It is
no secret that those most affected by land use decisions are those who
live, recreate and make their livelihoods on or near the public lands in
question.
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