Dems, enviro groups ready for battle over monuments
By Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal
WASHINGTON — Democrats are charging the Trump administration of using a politically driven process to undermine protections to public lands as environmental groups gird for a legal battle to stop the shrinking of national monuments under review — including two in Nevada.
Gold Butte National Monument and Basin and Range National Monument were on a list of 22 national monuments designated by presidents since Jan. 1, 1996, that President Trump directed by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to review.
Trump ordered the review to determine whether designations under the 1906 Antiquities Act should be rescinded or scaled back.
