{"id":1996001,"date":"2023-08-09T20:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rancher-furious-with-bidens-new-monument-shares-how-itll-hurt-his-ranch-shoving-it-down-our-throats\/"},"modified":"2023-08-09T20:45:36","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T00:45:36","slug":"rancher-furious-with-bidens-new-monument-shares-how-itll-hurt-his-ranch-shoving-it-down-our-throats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rancher-furious-with-bidens-new-monument-shares-how-itll-hurt-his-ranch-shoving-it-down-our-throats\/","title":{"rendered":"Rancher angered by Biden&#8217;s monument, fears harm to his ranch: &#8216;Forcing it upon us&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Francher-furious-with-bidens-new-monument-shares-how-itll-hurt-his-ranch-shoving-it-down-our-throats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1996001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Biden Administration&#8217;s Monument Designation Threatens\u2063 Utah Rancher\u200c and the Environment<\/h2>\n<p>A Utah rancher is speaking out \u200bagainst \u2064the Biden administration&#8217;s recent designation of over a\u2064 million acres of land near the \u2062Grand Canyon\u200d as \u2062a national monument. Chris\u2063 Heaton, whose\u2064 family has been\u2062 running a ranch in \u2062the area \u2064since \u200cthe 19th century, argues that the new Baaj Nwaavjo I&#8217;tah Kukveni \u2014 Ancestral Footprints \u2062of the Grand Canyon National Monument\u2063 not only poses a threat to his family&#8217;s \u200branching \u2062operation, but also has \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-claims-of-gentrification-cannot-stop-new-development-in-south-los-angeles\/\" title=\"Judge: Claims of \u2018Gentrification\u2019 Cannot Stop New Development in South Los Angeles\u00a0\">potential negative impacts<\/a> on the environment and energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Heaton&#8217;s concerns are shared by\u200b prominent Utah Republicans\u200b who believe that the environmental threat posed by \u2062the monument \u200bcontradicts President\u2063 Biden&#8217;s claims of \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-hostile-regimes-testing-joe-biden-during-his-first-months-in-office\/\" title=\"4 Hostile Regimes Testing Joe Biden During His First Months In Office\">fighting climate change<\/a>. Governor Spencer\u2062 Cox and both Utah senators, \u200bMitt Romney \u2064and Mike Lee, have criticized\u200c the monument\u2062 designation, highlighting\u2062 the potential harm\u2063 to nearby ranchers \u200cand the loss of\u200b valuable uranium mining opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Heaton\u2062 explains that the monument&#8217;s impact \u2064on his ranch is significant. He leases over 40,000 acres\u200d of federal and state land, which will be affected by the\u2062 designation. Additionally, the monument fails to \u200baddress the potential effects\u2062 on his\u200b private\u2064 water rights,\u2064 which are crucial for providing\u200d water to wildlife and livestock in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, Heaton \u2062raises concerns about the monument&#8217;s impact on uranium mining. While mining operations have been under a 10-year\u200b moratorium, the rancher argues that past\u2062 mining \u2063activities have been beneficial to\u200d ranchers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-garland-finally-comes-to-his-senses-issues-additional-protection-for-supreme-court-justices\/\" title=\"AG Garland Finally Comes to His Senses, Issues Additional Protection for Supreme Court Justices\">providing additional support<\/a> and resources.<\/p>\n<p>The monument designation has\u200c not been approved by Congress, leading to criticism\u2063 from Utah Republicans who believe that such <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rancher-furious-with-bidens-new-monument-shares-how-itll-hurt-his-ranch-shoving-it-down-our-throats\/\" title=\"Rancher angered by Biden's monument, fears harm to his ranch: 'Forcing it upon us'\">large-scale monuments restrict access<\/a> \u2063to\u200b critical minerals and\u200b fail to provide \u2063necessary resources for law enforcement and infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the designation of \u200dthe monument near the Grand Canyon\u2064 raises concerns about the \u200bpotential harm to ranchers, the environment, and the loss\u2064 of \u2063valuable energy\u2064 resources. Critics argue that this \u200cdecision reflects a\u200b top-down management approach and may hinder the country&#8217;s\u2064 energy efficiency \u200band independence.<\/p>\n<p>As the Biden administration continues \u2063to address energy \u200dissues, it is important to\u200c consider the potential \u200cconsequences and ensure that decisions are made with careful consideration for all stakeholders involved.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rancher-furious-bidens-new-monument-shares-itll-hurt-ranch-shoving-throats\/\">The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration&#8217;s national monument designation of a million acres near the Grand Canyon has a significant downside, warns a Utah rancher. The newly named Baaj Nwaavjo I&#8217;tah Kukveni jeopardizes Chris Heaton&#8217;s family ranching business and its ancestral ties to the Grand Canyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":1996002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1996002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}