The Grand Staircase-Escalante Enhancement Act by will reverse the egregious abuse of power by President Clintonhttps://cards.twitter.com/cards/oobpy/54m93 …
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It's inconceivable that someone entrusted to the highest office of the United States would be willing to undertake a process that was purely partisan on a matter of such importance
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President Clinton's #GrandStaircase designation locked up school trust lands, which derived revenue from the multiple uses of the land. The monies flowed to an endowment to support public education.
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#AntiquitiesAct to create#GrandStaircase was a clear example of inadequate protection. The Antiquities Act has another downside, what one president can do with a pen, a phone and a podium at the Grand Canyon, another can undo or unravel#utpolShow this thread -
The opportunity now lies with Congress to protect and set apart the places in Utah that deserve it, to consider what the lands mean to those who live on them and visit them and to apply the
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Dude, that is such a distortion of facts. State of Utah and federal govt did land swaps etc that were very advantageous to the State of Utah and SITLA school trust fund. These were finalized & accepted by UT and Republican Congress. Such a Ferengi
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Bullshit. Utah received $50m cash + 140,000 acres of federal land as a swap for those SITLA lands. The swap received bipartisan support. Does UT plan on returning that $50m now that GSENM has been slashed?
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That's not what Gov. Leavitt was saying just a few years ago. He wrote this op-ed in 2012 about how much the
#GrandStaircase land swaps benefited Utah. https://www.deseretnews.com/article/765594651/Strategic-land-exchanges-benefit-rural-economies-Utah-schoolchildren-and-the-environment.html …pic.twitter.com/9pvcKcZQFr
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