Thread: Obama Stealth Moves To Seize Western Land without congressio

Interior Dept. documents detail Obama admin plotting to seize Western lands without congressional approval

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
08/11/10 4:00 PM EDT

Back in February, a leaked memo from the Department of the Interior http://robbishop.house.gov/WesternCaucu ... tid=170792
showed that the Obama administration was considering designating as many as 17 new national monuments throughout the West, effectively closing off huge swaths of land to development. That this was being done without the input of Congress or local authorities angered many. Now Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, Chairman of the Congressional Western Caucus and Ranking Member on the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands has uncovered 14 more pages from the document that were previously unavailable. http://robbishop.house.gov/UploadedFile ... es_doc.pdf

The new pages show a federal bureaucracy that has contempt for the legislative process and the input of elected representatives. “Should the legislative process not prove fruitful, or if a nationally significant natural or cultural land resource come under threat of imminent harm, the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] would recommend that the Administration consider using the Antiquities Act [to designate a national monument],â€

Working toward Agenda 21? Or diminishing private land ownership?