The problem is that these bills for national parks and monuments, ban completely normal practices already common within their boundaries. What this fear mongering article fails to mention, is that most of those bills passed at the end of last session, were actually sponsored by Republicans.

Here is an example. This Republican sponsored law designates a protected area in a national forest. This provision still allows non-evasive human activities in this area, which if they were designated a park or monument, only tourism would me allowed.

People fail to forget that our national forest system was created as a preserve for economic use. It was created to act as a haven from suburban/urban encroachment for activities such as mining, drilling, and logging.

The big push back to national parks/monuments bills is that a lot of this land is used by their localities for economic activities that would be banned under such bills, like logging, or cattle grazing. These lands are basically the breadwinners for their local communities, and making them offbounds kills the communities.

That's not to mention that these bills make forestry management completely impossible, increasing the chances of devastating forest fires by magnitudes, and causing untold damages.

A completely saner thing to do would be to impose more regulations on public lands, like the many Republican sponsored laws in the past session has, while still allowing certain economic activity, like was intended when the Forest Reserve Act was created over 130 years ago, instead of declaring these lands completely off limits to any human activity but tourism.

And, to be honest, if we're really looking to preserve sites for our future, maybe we should start to tear down the tens of thousands of dams created by Democrats and Progressives, that have flooded, and caused more damage to our environments and archeological sites, than not designating anymore National Parks or Monuments.