What Is Happening To Our National Monuments?

Midday on WNYC | Dec 28, 2017

Journalist Elliott Woods discusses his recent article for Outside magazine, “Ryan Zinke Is Trump's Attack Dog on the Environment.” He profiles Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and looks at the fight to preserve public lands in the U.S.  Woods examines Zinke’s role in the Trump administration’s plans to cut back on the size of two huge national monuments in Utah, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments by nearly a million acres each.

This is a rebroadcast of a segment guest hosted by Arun Venugopal. 

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