A rancher in Utah claims that the Biden administration’s decision to designate over a million acres of land close to the Grand Canyon as a national monument has a significant cost.
Chris Heaton claims that the new Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni — Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument threatens the ranching business his family has operated since the 19th century and the environment and energy sources.
Prominent Republicans from Utah agree.
One of the admirable objectives Biden touts for the land grab—fighting climate change—is at odds with the environmental hazard.
And it comes at a significant cost to Heaton, who ranches 40 miles north of the Grand Canyon. “We’ve been just devastated,” he told Fox News on Tuesday.
“We graze out here on the Arizona strip, which is the strip of land in Arizona that’s north of the Colorado River,” Heaton said. “We’ve been here since the late 1800s, my family have, and this monument really impacts us.
“They’re shoving it down our throats,” Heaton went on. “They’re telling us that we’re gonna like it, but they’re not telling us what it will do and how it will help or hurt us. There’s no management plan, there’s nothing in place.”
A small consolation for Heaton is that contrary to prior iterations, a monument map made public on Tuesday no longer included 1,000 acres of his private property.
But it still represents a problem for him. “I have 40,000-plus acres of federal and state land that I lease from the federal [government] and the state of Arizona, and that is impacted,” Heaton said.
“And with that land, we own private water rights that are definitely affected and they’re not addressing how those private water rights will be affected by this monument,” he said.
“Out here on the Arizona strip, there’s no live water,” Heaton continued. “So all the wildlife — the mule deer and the antelope — and then all the livestock is watered by stock ponds and springs and wells that are owned and maintained by the ranchers.
“And if they push us off, little by little, which this monument most likely will do, they get rid of the water sources which then harms the environment, including the wildlife.”
When asked by Fox co-host Sean Duffy about the monument restricting access to uranium, Heaton responded that a 10-year moratorium on uranium mining in the region has been in place and will end in another ten years.
He talked about how ranchers benefited from earlier mining operations. He described the miners as “excellent neighbors” who served as “another set of eyes” for ill and stray cattle as well as year-round road maintenance.
Governor Spencer Cox and both Republican senators from Utah have criticized President Joe Biden’s allocation of 1,500 square miles for the monument close to Grand Canyon National Park, which was not approved by Congress.
“Massive, landscape-scale monuments like this are a mistake,” Cox said in a news release. “These designations increase visitation without providing any additional resources for law enforcement and infrastructure to protect sensitive areas.
“They also needlessly restrict access to the critical minerals that are key to cell phones, satellites, U.S. defense systems and so many other American industries.”
Sen. Mitt Romney described the monument as part of the executive branch’s ongoing abuse of the Antiquities Act and highlighted the threat to nearby ranchers and the loss of “one of the most productive uranium mining districts in the country.”
“By eliminating this important source of uranium, President Biden has increased both our dependence on Russia and China and our ultimate carbon footprint, while decreasing our energy efficiency,” a statement from Romney said.
According to KJZZ-TV, Sen. Mike Lee described the monument as “a poorly thought-out strategy with potentially catastrophic impacts.”
Besides affecting local ranchers, the monument will “tie up one of our few domestic sources of uranium, a critical component in carbon-free nuclear energy production.”
Lee said the move represents “a disturbing trend toward a top-down management that Democrat presidential administrations have consistently showcased.”
It’s possible that securing land near the Grand Canyon has nothing to do with giving Native Americans a break or ensuring better weather in a hundred years.
Observe how the Biden administration handles other energy-related concerns.
Oil and natural gas were the first “dirty” energy sources to be targeted. It now appears to be targeting nuclear energy produced from uranium, the cleanest energy source of them all.
How could Democrats continue to promote (and profit from) their “climate emergency” hoax if the answer to our “green” energy dilemma turns out to be buried in Arizona? Better to bury it.
There is an issue for Chris Heaton and his family. And it appears that we all do as well.
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