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Conservation plan or land grab?

By Jim Hartman tainable. The USGS came up are included in this initiative, Ears and the nearby Grand
with the 12 percent already setting up issues for potential Staircase-Escalante monu-
In an ex- conserved number, but even federal overreach. Subjecting ment. He opened the New
ecutive order the Biden administration ac- private landowners to this England marine monument
issued Jan. knowledges it needs to better nebulous federal program is to fishing. Restoring those
27, President understand what qualifies as a breach of private property monuments is expected to be
Joe Biden “conserved.” rights. Biden’s first “30 by 30” action.
mandated a In a March 15 letter to As far as federal land goes, Additionally, the National
one-year moratorium on new Biden, 64 Republican mem- the quickest path to increas- Park Service has identified
oil and gas leases on public bers of Congress, including ing the number of acres con- more than 11,000 tracts of
lands. Quietly contained in Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah and served would be to create new land near park boundaries
that order (executive order Rep. Mark Amodei of Nevada, national parks, monuments, for purchase, comprising 1.6
14008) is a “30 by 30” pro- expressed concern about the and wilderness areas to add million acres.
gram, an aggressive – even lack of details accompanying to existing acres. Biden has Even if the Park Service
radical – push by environ- the goals, and the inability authority under the Antiqui- acquired it all, it would bare-
mental and climate change of Biden’s Interior Secretary, ties Act to create and restore ly impact the more than 400
activists to put 30 percent Deb Haaland, to answer ques- national monuments on land million additional acres re-
of the land and water in the tions about the initiative in or sea, and unlike national quired to conserve 30 percent
United States under perma- her confirmation hearing. parks, no approval by Con- of U.S. lands.
nent protection by 2030. The letter notes that the gress is required. State and local govern-
Their stated purpose is to federal government manages President Obama estab- ments, the energy, minerals
conserve more wildland to 640 million acres of land, over lished two marine monu- and agriculture sectors, pri-
reduce the effects of climate 90% of which is west of the ments off New England and vate property owners, tribes,
change and slow species loss. Mississippi. With significant expanded two marine monu- sportsmen and recreationists
Ecologists contend that con- federal land ownership, west- ments in the Pacific. He also need their voices heard in the
serving 30 percent of the ern states will be dispropor- established the 1.35 mil- “30 by 30” process.
world’s land and water will tionately impacted by policies lion-acre Bears Ears National Jim Hartman is an attor-
protect about 75 percent of set to achieve the “30 by 30” Monument in Utah. ney in Genoa, Nevada.
the Earth’s species. goal. President Trump withdrew
The U.S. is currently con- Haaland’s appointment 2 million acres from Bears nevadaappeal.com
serving about 26 percent of was newsworthy because
its coastal waters but only she became the first Native
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To reach the “30 by 30” tar- who wants to stop all oil and
get will require conserving an gas leasing on public lands.
area twice the size of Texas, In 2019, she was sponsor of
more than 440 million acres, House Resolution 835 – “30
within the next 10 years. by 30” mirroring legislation,
The White House has not yet “with a long-term goal of con-
specified who will oversee the serving 1/2 of the planet…”
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