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12-06-2017, 06:55 AM
Trump shrank 2 national monuments by nearly 2 million acres. He can't do that to Yellowstone.
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President Trump may have just dramatically slashed the size of two national monuments in Utah (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/patagonia-national-monuments-homepage/), but America's 59 national parks — as well as over 270 other national park sites (https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/upload/Site-Designations-01-13-17.pdf) — cannot be unilaterally downsized by Trump or any other president.*
The legal reason is simple and inarguable:
"National parks can only be established by Congress, and everyone agrees they can only be undone, if at all, by Congress," Holly Doremus, a natural resources law expert at University of California, Berkeley, told Mashable in an email.*
SEE ALSO: Photos of the majestic public lands Trump just opened to drilling and hunting (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/trump-the-drilling-president-cuts-bears-ears-grand-staircase/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/05/trump-slashed-size-of-national-monuments-but-cant-downsize-national-parks/)
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President Trump may have just dramatically slashed the size of two national monuments in Utah (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/patagonia-national-monuments-homepage/), but America's 59 national parks — as well as over 270 other national park sites (https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/upload/Site-Designations-01-13-17.pdf) — cannot be unilaterally downsized by Trump or any other president.*
The legal reason is simple and inarguable:
"National parks can only be established by Congress, and everyone agrees they can only be undone, if at all, by Congress," Holly Doremus, a natural resources law expert at University of California, Berkeley, told Mashable in an email.*
SEE ALSO: Photos of the majestic public lands Trump just opened to drilling and hunting (http://mashable.com/2017/12/04/trump-the-drilling-president-cuts-bears-ears-grand-staircase/) Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/05/trump-slashed-size-of-national-monuments-but-cant-downsize-national-parks/)
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