Should National Monuments Be Protected by the Government?

President Trump has been trying to abandon Mr. Barack Obama's legacy, he also has destroyed the very valuable protection vision of Theodore Roosevelt. According to reports, after reviewing last year 's 27 th National Monument, the trump decided to shrink the two million - acre monument, weakened strict federal protection and resumed large - scale commercial use It was.

The exact details of the President's decision are unknown, as are the names of other monuments that the government may challenge. But it is already clear that it will lead to a major legal counterattack by indigenous tribal leaders and environmentalists. They will abolish or substantially amend the President's power to the name of the monument under the Antiquarian Act of 1906.

This measure is one of Roosevelt's main protection awards and gives the president unilateral power to protect historical landscapes and buildings destroyed, plundered and destroyed when settled in the West It was. Mr. Roosevelt has created 18 national monuments to protect the 230 million acres of public domain. Since then, both presidents have joined the list. But this bill did not give the president the authority to abolish or cancel the monument, nor did the president do so. It is not clear whether the President will be able to reduce the size of the monument rather than escape from the edge.

- How do you think the cards are planning to reduce the size of existing national historic sites, why do you think so?

Under the spirit of Mr. Roosevelt, from the Pacific Mariana Trench to the Statue of Liberty of New York Harbor, the change of President of the two parties is now joining 170 National Historic Site. Even the huge marine protected areas established by President George W. Bush and supplemented by Mr Obama are subject to censorship. Judging from what we have seen so far, the Trump regime will not do such expansion, but just deducting will help in commercial interests. And some people in the West believe that the public domain belongs to the Americans without belonging to the American people for many years. they are. This will be a tragic retreat of Roosevelt Vision.

- If you have the right to increase or reduce the list of national historic sites, what will you do and why?

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National historic sites protect certain nature, culture, or historical features. These are the Wyoming Satan Tower Quasi-National Park, Utah State Great Staircase - Escalante National Park, Chicago Pullman National Monument Park. Special places such as Grand Canyon, Badlands, Zion, etc. were initially protected as a National Park and later became a national park. The wilderness area is a place where people are not domesticated. In the Wilderness Act of 1964, Congress could designate the wilderness area, so that the first wastelands of the United States will not disappear. The wilderness area can be part of the state-owned park, the National Wildlife Refuge, and the public land managed by state-owned forest or land management. There are more than 680 wilderness areas - more than 160 million acres in 44 states - the latest one designated as Boulder Baiyun in Idaho Province

A national monument is an area of ​​federal land under its premise that has historical buildings, structures, or other purposes of historical or scientific importance and is permanently protected by the government. The ruins of the National Monument have various sights such as rock paintings, wildlife endangered in danger, dinosaur bones, incomparable entertainment opportunities. National monument is not necessarily land. Buildings such as the Statue of Liberty and areas in the ocean such as the Mariana Trench are also designated as national historic sites. The National Monument maintains the integrity of the ruins of the western United States and plays a particularly important role in preserving important archeological relics of the United States.