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Shrinking and altering national monuments: Experts assess Interior Secretary Zinke's proposals

  • Written by Robert B. Keiter, Wallace Stegner Professor of Law, University Distinguished Professor, University of Utah
imageInterior Secretary Ryan Zinke has proposed shrinking Oregon's Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and allowing more public access and road maintenance. Bob Wich/BLM, CC BY

Editor’s note: On April 26, 2017, President Trump ordered Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review 27 national monuments that had been created or expanded since 1996 and...

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