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January 3, 2018

Interior Secretary Asks Trump to Shrink Marine Monuments
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is urging President Trump to radically
shrink three marine monuments and to open them up to commercial fishing.
The monuments, which were expanded under President Barack Obama, are
vast, covering an area about three times the size of California. Zinke's
proposal comes after President Trump shrank national monuments including
Bears Ears in Utah, opening up the protected federal lands to mining,
logging, drilling and other forms of extraction.


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