The Trump administration caused confusion regarding the future of two national monuments in California, as an announcement suggesting they would be rescinded was abruptly retracted. This uncertainty was met with strong reactions from environmental groups, tribal leaders, and elected officials, decrying potential damages to public lands. Conservationist Ileene Anderson condemned the rollback as a harmful attack against the communities who back these monuments. Trump's Interior Secretary's directive to revise public lands policy raised fears of increased resource extraction, intensifying worries about the sites' conservation status.
Trump's gutting of the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments is a gruesome attack on our system of public lands, said Ileene Anderson of the Center for Biological Diversity.
This vindictive and unwarranted action is a slap in the face to Tribes and all supporters of public lands, highlighting the community's overwhelming support for these monuments.
The expectation that Trump intended to roll back the status for the two California monuments led to immediate reaction from their supporters, including bipartisan local leaders.
Anticipation of potential rollbacks was fueled by a directive from Trump's Interior Secretary directing a review of all withdrawn public lands, aiming to boost resource extraction.
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