{"id":16643,"date":"2021-10-07T20:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=16643"},"modified":"2021-10-07T20:04:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T00:04:27","slug":"fact-sheet-president-biden-restores-protections-for-three-national-monuments-and-renews-american-leadership-to-steward-lands-waters-and-cultural-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/10\/07\/fact-sheet-president-biden-restores-protections-for-three-national-monuments-and-renews-american-leadership-to-steward-lands-waters-and-cultural-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact Sheet: President Biden Restores Protections for Three National Monuments and Renews American Leadership to Steward Lands, Waters, and Cultural Resources"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Bears<\/a>
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Fact Sheet: President Biden Restores Protections for Three National Monuments and Renews American Leadership to Steward Lands, Waters, and Cultural Resources<\/div>\r\n
Thursday, October 7, 2021<\/div>\r\n
Indianz.Com<\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe following is the text of an October 7, 2021, fact sheet from the White House.<\/em>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nAs part of the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s effort to better protect, conserve, and restore the lands and waters that sustain the health of communities and power our economy, President Biden will sign three proclamations restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments. By restoring these national monuments, which were significantly cut back during the previous administration, President Biden is fulfilling a key promise and upholding the longstanding principle that America\u2019s national parks, monuments, and other protected areas are to be protected for all time and for all people.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe President\u2019s protection of these three national monuments is among a series of steps the Administration has taken to restore protections to some of America\u2019s most cherished lands and waters, many of which are sacred to Tribal Nations. The Administration has halted leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, committed to restore protections for the Tongass National Forest under the Roadless Rule, and initiated the process to protect Bristol Bay and the world-class salmon fishery it supports. The Great Lakes, the Chesapeake Bay, the Everglades, the Columbia River Basin, and dozens of other special places are also back on America\u2019s conservation agenda.\r\n

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<\/p>\r\nThe Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s land, water, ocean, and wildlife conservation efforts are critical to solving the climate crisis, protecting public health, promoting wildlife and biodiversity, and rebuilding America\u2019s economy. As part of his Build Back Better Agenda, the\r\nPresident has proposed the creation of a new Civilian Climate Corps, which would\r\npartner with unions in putting \r\n to work\r\na new generation\r\n\r\n that looks like America \u2013 with good benefits and pay\r\n\u2013 on the path to family-supporting careers in fields\r\nrestoring the health of our public lands,\r\n coasts, waters, and forests, advancing environmental justice, and helping communities better\r\n prepare for the impacts of a changing climate.\r\n\r\n \r\nThe President has also set the first-ever national conservation goal, which the Administration is pursuing by supporting locally-led and voluntary\r\nconservation efforts across the country and creating more equitable access to the outdoors, including by investing in urban parks.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nPresident Biden\u2019s action to restore Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante, and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments is consistent with recommendations from Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, who \u2013 with the support of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, and Justice, and the White House Council on Environmental Quality \u2013 reviewed the actions of the previous administration that drastically reduced protections for these places. As part of this review, Biden-Harris Administration leaders met with Members of Congress, state and local government officials, representatives of Tribal Nations, and a wide range of stakeholders. Secretary Haaland also visited Utah to directly meet with local residents and tour the area. After gathering information and input, the Department of the Interior provided the President a report with recommendations on future protection for the areas.\r\n

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<\/p>\r\nThe specific actions that President Biden is taking today are:\r\n

<\/P>\r\n\u2022 Restoring the Bears Ears National Monument to the boundaries established by President Obama on December 28, 2016 and retaining protections for an additional 11,200 acres added by President Trump in 2017<\/strong>. Restoring these\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n protections will conserve a multitude of sites that are culturally and spiritually important to Tribal Nations\u2014 including petroglyphs, pictographs, cultural sites, dwellings, and areas used for traditional rituals, gatherings, and tribal practices \u2014 as well as paleontological objects, landscape features, historic objects, and plant and animal species. Restoring the Monument\u2019s boundaries and conditions restores its integrity, upholds efforts to honor the federal trust responsibility to Tribal Nations, and conserves these lands and waters for future generations. With this action, the total protected area of Bears Ears National Monument is 1.36 million acres.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nIn restoring the Bears Ears National Monument, the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring that there is adequate staffing and resources to appropriately protect the area\u2019s natural and cultural resources, to manage the increased visitation that the area continues to experience, and to make Bears Ears a model for Tribal participation in the management of the Monument. The Bureau of Land Management plans to assign additional rangers to the region; install appropriate signage and infrastructure to inform and support visitors; begin working with local communities, the State of Utah, and Tribal leaders on assessing the potential opportunity for a Bears Ears visitors center that highlights the monument\u2019s cultural resources; and support the Bears Ears Intertribal Commission’s participation in management of the National Monument.\r\n

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<\/P>\r\n\u2022 Restoring Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to the boundaries that were in place on January 20, 2017<\/strong>. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was first protected in 1996, and as described in Proclamation 6920, the landscape holds world-class geological objects of historic or scientific interest, including the Grand Staircase, White and Vermilion Cliffs, Kaiparowits Plateau, Escalante Natural Bridge, Grosvenor Arch, and numerous other enumerated geologic objects. The Monument also contains vast paleontological objects including significant fossils of marine and brackish water mollusks, turtles, crocodilians, lizards, dinosaurs, fishes, and mammals, as well as a host of cultural objects associated with both ancient indigenous cultures and early Latter-Day Saint pioneers, including, but not limited to, petroglyphs and pictographs, occupation sites, campsites, granaries, and trails. The Monument also contains hanging gardens, tinajas, and rock crevice, canyon bottom, and dunal pocket communities, protecting the region\u2019s unusual and diverse soils, endemic plants and pollinators, relic vegetation, and diverse wildlife. Restoring the Monument\u2019s conditions and boundaries will restore its integrity, support the continued scientific exploration as outlined in Proclamation 6920, protect our shared lands and waters for future generations, and continue this administration\u2019s historic efforts to honor the Federal trust responsibility. The total protected area of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is restored to 1.87 million acres.\r\n

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