Friday, November 25, 2016

OBAMA'S LAST BIDS TO SAVE WILDERNESS

The Guardian wrote today that President Obama will try and save as much public land before Trump becomes President. 

He already cancelled more than 24 oil and gas leasesin Colorado.

He banned offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean for five years.

He negotiated a settlement that cancelled 32,000 acres in Montana on land considered sacred to the Blackfeet.

He is considering making the landscape around Bear's Ears a national monument as well as Nevada's Gold Butte  and the nothermn end of the Grand Canyon.

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