Commentary: The public lands rollback: Trump's revolution is undoing conservation norms that date back to Teddy Roosevelt
by Michael C. Blumm, Los Angeles Times
Jan 16, 2018
3 minutes
The Trump administration, aided by a willing but slim majority in Congress, began to comprehensively dismantle public lands protections in 2017. The regulatory results were fairly astonishing. They amount to an unprecedented rollback of conservation norms that date back to Theodore Roosevelt, who made the preservation of natural resources national policy more than a century ago.
Trump's disassembling of public lands protections include drastically slashing the size of national monuments in Utah, opening up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, jettisoning protections for sage grouse throughout vast areas of the
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