Wed
Oct 4 2017
04:55 pm
By: B Harmon
Here is Mark Harmon's column for this week.
Secretary Zinke nevertheless recommended that President Donald Trump shrink the borders of four national monuments and open six others to mining, drilling, commercial fishing and logging — often endangering Native American cultural artifacts. The changes to millions of acres constitute what the Sierra Club described as “the largest-ever reduction of protections for public lands and waters in U.S. history.”
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Is this real or satire?:)
Is this real or satire?:)
Real :(
(in reply to bizgrrl)
I ask that question every morning when I read the news.
There's a lot more, too
(in reply to B Harmon)
Here's more about Zinke's terrible tenure at the Interior Department.
Low Morale at Interior: