National Monument – Fusion Nepal

President Trump may have just dramatically slashed the size of two national monuments in Utah, but America’s 59 national parks — as well as over 270 other national park sites — 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.

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The president stole your land.

That’s the stark, unequivocal, monochrome message writ large on the Patagonia homepage Monday, following Trump’s announcement that the government aims to dramatically cut back two national monuments.

In what the outdoor clothing company slams as “the largest elimination of protected land in American history,” Trump announced plans to scale back Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by some 80 percent and 45 percent, respectively — leaving the land open to drilling and hunting. Read more…

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