Senator Whitehouse amendment failed.
OMG. I don't believe this one. Senator Daines wants to eliminate national monuments from any land while turning over authority for same to local governments. The reason? The national monuments are interferring with the petroleum industry's drilling. That is shameful.
The only major national monument in Montana is Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. (click here) The people of Montana are better Americans than this.
Pompeys Pillar National Monument is related to Lewis and Clark and requires very little land. There is no big land grab by any federal agency.
While archeological digs and
other recent research have uncovered artifacts that may have been left
by the Corps of Discovery, Clark’s inscription is still the only
remaining physical evidence of Lewis and Clark’s passing visible on
their actual route. This historic carving on the sandstone butte that
Clark called a “remarkable rock” has inspired generations of visitors
for more than 100 years.
OMG. I don't believe this one. Senator Daines wants to eliminate national monuments from any land while turning over authority for same to local governments. The reason? The national monuments are interferring with the petroleum industry's drilling. That is shameful.
The only major national monument in Montana is Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. (click here) The people of Montana are better Americans than this.
Pompeys Pillar National Monument is related to Lewis and Clark and requires very little land. There is no big land grab by any federal agency.
During his return trip to St. Louis, (click here) William Clark of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition climbed the Pillar and carved his signature and the date in
the sandstone. Clark wrote, “This rock I ascended and from it’s top had a
most extensive view in every direction on the Northerly Side of the
river high romantic Clifts approach & jut over the water for Some
distance both above and below...I marked my name and the day of the
month and year."
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