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General News    H3'ed 12/2/17

Trump Is Vandalizing Our Wild Heritage -The president is expected to travel to Utah on Monday to announce that he is rep

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"Trump is repealing protections for as many as 2 million acres of public land in the American West, an area more than six times the size of Grand Teton National Park, including vast portions of two national monuments in the state, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante; the plans add up to the largest elimination of protected areas in American history.  If he succeeds, tens of thousands of Native American sacred sites in southern Utah will be at renewed risk of looting. Red rock canyon lands will face the prospect of being stripped for coal and drilled for oil and gas. And the wild places where we hike and hunt and find solitude may not be there for future generations to do the same.This theft of our heritage should awaken us to the damage being piled up across our public lands under this administration."

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