agesilaus wrote:
President Trump will not be able to block these NM. The law provides no way that can be done. Congress would have to pass a law and then Trump would most likely sign it.
Utah is already over 75 percent Federal land and Nevada is 88 percent before these additions. You can see why the locals are upset. Obama should have created huge new NM in New York and Pennsylvania and see how those folks like it. They really need more federal parkland in the east.
I am a bit late to the discussion but no federal lands were added. They were already under federal jurisdiction with one agency or another, primarily USFS and BLM. Much of the federal land in Nevada is military.
A little difficult to designate federal parks in the east as there is less percentage of fed land as opposed to state, county or mostly private. Why do people from the east come out west? Duh, open spaces instead of congested megalopolises. I am glad that we do have public lands.
