Sunday, May 4, 2014

Westerners Fear Obama Preparing for Huge Land Grabs



Westerners fear Obama preparing monuments land grab.
Some fear, others lobby for, unilateral action by the Obama administration on preserving wild lands. 

“I’ll use my authority to protect more of our pristine federal lands for future generations,” he said in his State of the Union address earlier this year.

That commitment has some in the West fearing more intrusion by the federal government into their backyard, undermining locally driven efforts to decide the future of public lands. That fear isn’t without precedent. 

“It makes me worried that [the president will] just ignore the wishes of the people of Utah and just do what he wants to — like Clinton did,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said in a recent Salt Lake Tribune interview. “Sometimes he does act unilaterally.”




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