Mike Davis
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1,932 appearances
23 recordings
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 18 Sep
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The president did something very similar several years ago during his first term.
Of course, the monuments were re-expanded under the past administration.
And this matters to Utah.
We believe that under the Antiquities Act, it's very clear that these monument designations are supposed to be the smallest area possible to protect Utah.
Protect the antiquities and these multi-million acre monuments that are bigger than the state of Delaware certainly do not fit that designation.
Now we care, we definitely care about protecting these antiquities and will continue to do so.
The problem is with these giant monument designations, there are no resources that come with those.
We have nine monuments in Utah.
Seven of them are around 700 acres to 7,000 acres.
That's what this was meant to be, not millions of acres as what happened with Grand Staircase-Escalante.
and Bears Ears.
And so we're grateful that the President has made a determination that we need to right-size these monuments.
Again, this does not remove the other protections that already exist in those areas, just making the monuments more manageable so that we have the resources necessary to continue to protect these antiquities.
I know we have the Deputy Secretary.
of the Department of Interior here with us.
Kay, is there anything you'd like to add to that?
I'll just say the Antiquities Act is 120 years old, but the first monument that was created was only 1,200 acres.
It is better.
Yeah, Senator Lee's been very involved, I know, in conversing with you.
That's true.
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