And central time zones. The secretary of the interior will conduct an examination review of all president ial designations or expansions of designations under the Antiquities Act made since january 1, 1996 where the designation after expansion covers more than 100,000 acres or where the secretary determines that the designation or expansion was made without adequate Public Outreach and coordination with relevant stakeholders. 46. 4 of the western states land is owned by the government. The u. S. Government owns and operates about 27 of the land mass in the united states, including alaska and hawaii. ,ohn is joining us from roanoke virginia on the issue of federal land and whether you think it should be open for development. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. The last lady was talking about several people that called in and said if corporations can get in here and drill or mind for coal or whatever, and then another person came in, called in and said, we have laws and it , makesrnment protection these corporations go back and fix their land back the way it was before. I would like people on the east coast to ride down into kentucky and look at the strip mining. When the coal mines left, they left a mess. Polluted the streams, pulled mountain tops off, and nobody has tried to force these Companies Back to fix what they were supposed to fix. I think the same thing will go on out west. Host we will go to rebecca next, joining us from north carolina. Caller good morning, how are you . Host fine, thank you. Strongly feel very about the federal land. , therevious callers that way some Developers Think the world is used for their pleasure to make money and it is really there for all of us to admire gods handiwork and leave it just like it is. Thank you for having this call. Host thank you. Brad, fayetteville, arkansas. Caller what is going on . Host you are on the air. Caller i am against giving away federal land to corporate enterprise. Host why . Caller because it is part of what is called the liberal agenda. It was formulated back in 1971. Memorandum and the new liberal agenda is composed of three parts privatization of public resources, deregulation of corporate business, and gutting of anything that speaks to social good. Host mike is next from china late, california, china lake, california. Guest good morning. Caller good morning. Absolutely, the monuments need to be abandoned. It started with jimmy carter, he started taking our land away. T started way back every president wants to make their mark and lock up our land. The wealth of the nation is mostly in its resources and when you lock the land up and let a foreign entity basically, the united nations, control your resources, then you are in trouble. The heritage sites around the world is another rouse. They are taking our land, calling it heritage sites, so only the elite can see it. Messes up the land anymore except the government. Rs love theiry mino love their land. Stopped mining in 2006 which took land, and the patent law was to turn it into real estate with the intent of mining. Upy are taking all our land but they are not producing very much product. Every time it is cloudy, the solar mirrors stop producing and it is wiping out the desert for these bogus, subsidized, cheap energy that is not cheap or alternative energy is bogus. They need to open our land up, give it back to the people, and take it back away from the elite. Interior hast of run ram shot over the public, locking out the land, kicking people out, locking out oldtime miners. Believe they are a 4 police service. Erases allservice the roads and then you cannot fight fires. A viewer saying i would ask the people of alaska if they are prohibited from fishing and hunting in regard to those federal land. Ear is in southern utah is one of those areas likely to be affected by the directive, and this is one of the scenes by that desperate that area. Jason is joining us, eugene, oregon. Caller good morning. I just wanted to disagree with ers of howe other call they display their totalitarian tendencies and fear of authority. Most people with regard to our national treasures, leave we know the value of these places and that spirit was codified into law by Teddy Roosevelt to maintain a security bought deposit. We only look at the example of Easter Island as an example of when you do not have some sort of control. The economics of Environmental Resources are truly not fully appreciated and taken into account. Er nstance, when a min they do not take into account the damage. Meansd to redefine what wealth. There is no Society Without the environment, and i would like to draw my fellow viewers attention to google and the epa. Of thel see these maps flora and fauna of our country. Host there it is on the screen right now, jason. It, i wantedis people to maybe redefine what true wealth is. The blessedness of being car needed as a human in the net carnated in the united states. This is what our country is about, meeting the common noble. I would call my fellow citizens to aspire to this nobility which rests upon scientific method, not just the believe and fear of authority. Host a tweet that has been retweeted by a number of folks if you have never been to yosemite, kings canyon, and sequoia, you have not seen a natural wonder yet. I want to share the story from the Washington Post and another decision by the Trump Administration rescinding an order by president barack obama. They write he has ended a sixyearold ban on selling tled water which used to sought to ease waste. The National Park service said the 2011 action under the Obama Administration removed the healthiest beverage choice at a variety of parks while still allowing the sale of bottled sweetened drinks. Michelle joining us from upper marlboro, maryland, good morning. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. I appreciate cspan. Host we appreciate your call. Caller i think that what we can do and this is actually an area i am studying for my own dissertation, if you will is to take a balanced approach between preservation and development. I think that on the preservation side, anything that is a natural wonder, i agree with the last regardinguiring dust some of the beauty of rocks and redwoods and other sorts of treasures that we have in this country, and those absolutely ought to be preserved. At the same time, and it is kind of a timely conversation given everything that has been going on lately as it relates to race relations, it is a way that i atone, ifica can help because, for slavery part of slavery was to be, in terms of the demolishing or ending of slavery, was to be the distribution of land. To then owners or persons who were slaves. We are long past that time so clearly no one is going to get 40 acres and a mule, however there is a formula that can be ratified that shows an equitable distribution of land. Federal lands are a great way to do it because they are already there. It does not cause cost givesers any money and it black people a continued opportunity for self actualization, to be self empowered. So many have so many people have these perceptions of what race is and what people are working or not working and so forth, and land is one of those things that you can self empower a person. Interestingly enough, in 1865, the homestead act simultaneously, near simultaneously ended at the end of slavery. The homestead act was an toortunity for americans literally go and stake their claim in various parts of this great land of ours, and develop it. Some people were successful and others were not, but the opportunity was there. Host michelle, thank you for the call. The other legislation we are talking about, the Antiquities Act signed into law by president Teddy Roosevelt has given every subsequent president the ability to designate areas as a national monument. This from a viewer federal lands could be leased out from growing hot in california and es used to defray federal National Park expenses. This ad in advance. Excuse us, secretary zinke e, the west is calling. You asked whether we wanted to keep our National Monuments. We do, all of them. One million westerners answered your question. 98 asked you to respect our National Monuments and the history and heritage they represent, so when it comes to our public land, will you listen to washington insiders or will you listen to the west . Host back to your phone calls. Should federal land be open to development . John is joining us from severna park, maryland. Caller i do not want to see our public land opened up to stripmining and stuff like that, but i would like some more access for people who just want to get out and enjoy our public land. I am an avid hunter and fisherman and i have been out west, and it is very hard to act on some of these lands. We own the land, we should be able to enjoy it. I do not want mining or anything but maybe more access and easier access to enjoy our land. Someone who spends a lot of time on the river, i want to make it clear to people that you are polluting way too much. I am picking up trash in the severn river every time i go out and i would ask you to watch what you are doing. Host this is from donna the ecosystem is a natural wonder as well. Check the land. From james sell the land to the highest bidder and pay down some of our debt. Share your comments. We will read your tweets, as we look at some of the areas out west. Nearly half of the western states are controlled by the federal government. Dave is joining us from kendall county, illinois. Caller keep your hands off my natural resources. I am sick of hearing you trump loving, greedy, got to get, got to take people. I am so, so upset. I have not even begun to let my rage out at this president and his staff. You guys with your peacenik movements, that is fine. I love it. I am beyond that. I am ready to take up arms to s whoone of the trumpite think this nation owes them something. Does our natural resources. Havee been out there, i been there, i love it. There is no one out there. You have plenty of room in this country to do your development. This country has an 18 trillion a year economy without wasting land that is precious. I want everyone to understand, i am a Peace Movement guy but i am buying arms and when i meet you on the battlefield i am going to cut you down without regard. You are not americans. In my opinion, you are all traders. This country is for the people. You have taken it for your money and your gold. I applaud that. Deplore that. All the kids behind us that have nowhere to go as the robots take over and as they lose their jobs, there will not be any place to go. We will go get to see the mines and burnedout forest and torn down mountains. I am so pissed. Cut you down week in the field. Host david out west from seattle, washington. Caller i think that is a terrible idea to develop our public lands for oil and gas and lighting and have them rape the land and mess it all up. I know in washington we are quite concerned they want to open up a pebble Lighting Development by crystal bay to the inlet. They want to have a big, huge, silver and gold mineral mining developere they can those minerals where the salmon are spawning. That would completely ruin their whole area. There is too much of a scraping of our public land. They go in and make a mess and do not clean it up, and the public has to clean up the mess they have went in there and tried to develop some Minerals Just for money. Host thanks for the call. Should federal land be open for private development . Let me give you a sense of the areas we are talking about. Alaska, the vast majority of that state is owned by the federal government, over 61 . Western states Like Washington and montana, close to 30 of the land owned by the federal government. A larger percent in idaho, utah, oregon, california, and in nevada, 79 point 6 of the state is owned by the federal government, 38 in arizona. Lets go to drew. Caller i am calling from minnesota. I work as a county commissioner. There is something that has not been touched on here at all. One of these callers said he wishes there was more access to this land. The counties are the ones that maintain a lot of the roads in our states and that provide access to land, and yet it is rare they get enough money to even build roads or give owned because the land is by the state or federal government. When i say federal government on the public land, truly preservation land owned by the people and intended for use by the people. The federal government is not its own separate entity. These lands were set aside for public use by many people, not just those who can afford to lease it, the rich, and the huge corporations. Rarely does the common person benefit from these big huge government contracts and they are leased out to corporations. The comment i have is, the counties need reimbursement in an appropriate fashion if people wish to have access to these public lands. Normally we collect property taxes from owners of land, and payment ind pilt, lieu of taxes, and that is something that needs to be looked at Going Forward if the public has problems accessing these beautiful lands. It probably started 100 years ago when president lincoln signed the act for the huge park out west, yellowstone, i cannot think of it. Host how long have you been a county commissioner . Caller eight years. Host california, two areas californiadered, one Desert National monument is safe but still another in jeopardy. We will have a final decision by the interior secretary next week, and it will be up to the president to implement all or part of those recommendations by interior secretary ryan zinke he. Ryan zinke. Should federal land be open for development . Caller absolutely not. I find this pretty shocking that after the election we have now been faced with the installation , both at the interior department and epa who do not have any interest at all in preserving what we have. You know, what we have is a limited resource. It is not going to be there keep building and building and mining and stripping. It is going to be gone, that is just what happens. I grew up on whole life in california and the changes that i have seen in my lifetime of places like lake tahoe are shocking. Am 100 against the idea of opening public land up for commercial use. Host we will go to teresa from redding, california. Caller thank you for taking my call. I live in redding, california and im surrounded by federal land which is beautiful and pristine and a lot of it is protected now. It is shameful and sad that this administration is going after the land to give their bodies more money buddies in their bank accounts. I congressmen has always had a special interest with the ranchers and im afraid they are going to open all these lands to those ranchers, and we know what cattle does to land. I just want to take this forum to tell the rest of the people under his district, call him, call him every day if you have to. We have to protect these lands and we have to protect the land that is special to the native americans in this area. Host do you have access to the lands you are talking about, these National Monuments . Aller you bet we do we have beautiful lakes all over open to the public. We have all kinds of activities on the lake. These lakes bring an income for the small businessmen on the lakes as far as the docs, resorts, things like that. I would hate to see that go to waste. Host teresa, thanks. Alaska are the states the federal government has the vast majority of the land in those two states and craig, alaska is where our next caller is coming from. Paul, good morning. Where is craig . Alaska isaig, southeast alaska, right across from the first city. Host thank you for weighing in. The federal government owns the vast majority of land in alaska. There is Nothing Available for development. The greattalks about, bridge to nowhere from ketchikan that was dried to be built tried to be built. There is a Little Island across from ketchikan called green island and it is the only go rina island, and it is the only available land to be developed in ketchikan. That is why they built the bridge. I live in prince of wales. It was a disadvantage for me to build the bridge because it is more convenient for me too, in on the ferry and walk to the airport ferry and take it across to get to camp. You take down in the seattle area, an island called Bainbridge Island, a whole lot of wealthy people live on that island and there is a bridge. It is a bridge to nowhere because you go nowhere once you get on Bainbridge Island. The rich people that live in Bainbridge Island take the ferry over to seattle because they live over there, but there is a bridge to nowhere. It was built to make it convenient to get to the island that it went to nowhere and just. Ike the bridge from ketchikan and i gottnam veteran out of the service in 1975. There was a recession in 1975. I could not get a job. Skills to thent v. A. Because i went back to school again. I already had a bs ba in business but could not get a job working at that skill level so i went back to school to get the 500 a month to help survive. I went to school to get the 500, but out of that training i became a master electrician in ,rkansas and moved to alaska and am currently in semi retirement because im still doing the work here because there is only three licensed organizations on the island. People call me, i need an electrician, i got a problem. Here is the deal when i came back in 1975 and we listened to carter. We have got to do something about this because we did not have gas from the mideast. I said, im going to start a Solar Company and be on the leading edge of this thing, so i started a Company Called someday company. I had a company out of my own pocket, put together a solar collective model on the storefront, i put one on my house and found out you cannot sell the stuff because people would not put it on the roof because it was too ugly. Then i tried to sell