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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