California Republican under fire for attack on national monuments (Think Progress)

Think ProgressJuly 13th, 2017 2:55 pm...The Mojave Desert Land Trust, a nonprofit conservation group, condemned Cook for making the recommendation without meeting with local constituents or environmental groups.“It is outrageous that Rep. Cook would go behind the backs of his constituents to argue that one of our Mojave Monuments be diminished,” Danielle Segura, executive director of the trust, said in a statement. “The Mojave Desert Land Trust has invested in this landscape for over a decade, and worked alongside many diverse local groups, to create this monument. Rep. Cook couldn’t even wait until the public had commented before trying to strip protections on land important to the local community”...Read Full Article