Protect Our National Monuments From Oil, Gas and Mining

Some of our country’s most recognizable national park sites were protected through the Antiquities Act, including the Grand Canyon. The Antiquities Act has been used by both Republicans and Democrats to protect some of our most iconic lands and waters and most important history.  

Urge Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to keep federal protections for all of our national monuments.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a Secretarial Order "Unleashing American Energy." It calls for a 15-day internal review of oil, gas and mining on public lands, including national monuments designated under the Antiquities Act. This Secretarial Order is a dangerous step towards dismantling protections for national monuments in favor of unrestrained and speculative fossil fuel and mining development. 

The Antiquities Act is a conservation law that has been used by both Republican and Democratic presidents to safeguard public lands since it was established in 1906.

Places like Devils Tower, the very first national monument designated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, could face renewed risk of industrial fossil fuel development. This Secretarial Order aims to dismantle over a century of protections, threatening to open up monuments from Devils Tower to Bears Ears with a dangerous blanket order designed to prioritize industrial energy development at all costs.

Urge Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to take our national monuments off the table as he works towards President Trump’s goal of energy dominance. 

If we lose these places to oil and gas development, we forfeit a century-old legacy that we will not pass on to our grandchildren. We can’t let that happen on our watch.

Secretary Burgum-- 

I am very concerned about your recent Secretarial Order on unleashing American energy, especially the broad review of our national monuments. This open-ended review puts at risk some of our treasured national park monuments in favor of unrestrained and speculative fossil fuel and mining development. I urge you to take our national monuments off the table as you work towards the president’s goal of energy dominance. 

Special places like Devils Tower, the very first national monument designated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, are now at risk. Three national monuments surround and protect Grand Canyon National Park, one of our most popular national parks that also had its start as a national monument.  

Millions of acres of public land are already leased to oil and gas companies for fossil fuel extraction, with over 12 million acres currently under active oil and gas drilling out of 24 million acres under lease. We don’t need to sacrifice our national monuments. Please protect our national parks. 

 
Thank you for considering my views. 

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