John,

President Donald Trump and newly appointed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum have just ordered a so-called review of every mining ban and national monument on U.S. public lands. What they're actually doing is looking for immediate opportunities to reverse those bans or slash national monuments — a shameless ploy that would open the nation's most cherished public lands to industry oligarchs for mining, drilling, and development.

It’s the most sweeping attack on public lands in U.S. history. [link removed]

The monuments on the chopping block include Bears Ears in Utah; Vermilion Cliffs and Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon in Arizona; Chuckwalla, Sand to Snow, and Carrizo Plain in California; Rio Grande del Norte in New Mexico; and Avi Kwa Ame in Nevada.

These places are a vast, beautiful part of the country's natural heritage. They're home to chuckwalla lizards, kit foxes, pronghorns, Mexican spotted owls, California condors, and other rare and imperiled species — and many are the sacred lands of Indigenous peoples.

It's time to fight back for public lands and the precious wildlife who live there.

Tell Sec. Burgum: No rollbacks or giveaways of national monuments, which belong to the people — not private interests. [link removed]

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