Right-Wingers Hate National Parks

Extremists in the lower house of the federal government are seeking to block executive authority to create new national parks and monuments. H.R. 1459 is intended to stop a president from using the Antiquities Act of 1906 without congressional approval. The bill sponsor, an extremist from Utah, criticized the Current Occupant's use of the law to create new protected lands near Point Arena in the California Coastal Monument. The new area is the tenth national monument designated by the President. President Clinton created 19 during his two terms in office. The House has effectively shut down legislative efforts to protect wilderness, parks and monuments since the extremists took over in 2010. The bill to protect wilderness in Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore was the first since 2009. Fortunately, this new expression of anti-nature sentiment will not reach the Senate floor. Americans, by a three to one margin according to one poll, think Washington should be creating new parks and expanding opportunities for Americans to get outdoors and engage in healthful activity. US Person agrees!