Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution introduced which will dismantle our public lands

Utah Senator Mike Lee and his anti-public lands colleagues want to strip protection for national monuments and cut out the public process. His new radical bill is attempting to gut current protections for our National Monuments. By exploiting a legislative loophole in the Congressional Review Act (the “CRA”). These extremist politicians want to “obliterate” land management plans eliminating public process. If the bill is approved, it will effectively ban
future protections for many of our nation’s most treasured landscapes forever.

By misusing the Congressional Review Act, this bill doesn’t just stall conservation—it makes future protection nearly impossible. We are at a crossroads: protect our public lands for the next generations or watch them get sold off to the highest bidder. Anyone opposing an agenda for selling off public lands must reject this bill and protect our treasured national monuments. These are public lands that our communities, economies, and environment depend upon.

Todd Tucci, Senior Attorney, Advocates for the West: “Congress is effectively playing legislative Russian roulette with a gun pointed to the head of America’s public lands. They’re breaking the system of public lands management wholeheartedly. This isn’t just about the southeast corner of Utah, it potentially impacts every inch of public lands. It impacts your favorite watering hole, your favorite fishing hole… where you walk your dog, where you take
your kids hiking. There’s not an inch of public lands that is safe.”

Conservation Program Director America Fitzpatrick – “It’s no coincidence this attempt to gut protections for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was introduced by the members of Congress who led the public lands sell-off efforts during reconciliation.