No matter what happens.....

[yellowcanoe]

Obama created the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on Executive Order. DT promises to repeal Obama's Executive Orders. Do you think we are not scared? The area the National Monument is in is divided. Its sparsely populated with out of work lumbermen. They want the return of their jobs. Well the timber goes to making paper and making paper now is not in demand. The economy is shifting toward tourism and the National Monument can't help but be helpful with that. I am not anti logging but with the repeal of the Executive Order I fear private moneyed people will buy the land and throw up No Trespassing signs or Private Club Members Only because the mills aren't coming back

You do have to look forward, not backward.

 

[Guest]

Obama created the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on Executive Order. DT promises to repeal Obama's Executive Orders.

I was not going to participate in the thread, but I now have a question. Can a National Monument created by the use of the Antiquities Act be repealed? I have Googled that question to no avail, at best it has no historical precedence.

I fully expect President Obama to create the Bear Ears Nat’l Monument and the Gold Butte Nat’l Monument before leaving office.

Bear Ears Nat’l Monument

http://www.bearsearscoalition.org/proposal-overview/

Gold Butte Nat’l Monument

http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/n...a-will-designate-gold-butte-national-monument

 

[frozentripper]

Mike,

Can a National Monument created by the use of the Antiquities Act be repealed?

This report states it has happened but only for small monuments... so in theory it's possible for Congress to do this.

There is no dispute that Congress can reverse any Antiquities Act designation, though this has happened in only a handful of instances.

"They have undone little monuments," Leshy said, "but all the big monuments survived."

And elsewhere in the report a law professor says it would be difficult.

Opinions issued by the U.S. Justice Department through the years suggest presidents may modify, but not revoke a previous monument designation. Only Congress should reverse a designation, according to a 1938 opinion penned by then-Attorney General Homer Cummings.
"If President Trump attempts to revoke a national monument designation, that effort will almost certainly be embroiled in litigation, and the revocation would likely fail," said University of Utah law professor John Ruple, a research associate with the Stegner Center for Land, Resources and the Environment.

http://www.sltrib.com/news/4563968-1...s-a-bears-ears