Republicans to Trump: Shrink Mojave Trails National Monument, leave Sand to Snow alone (USA Today)
USA TodayJuly 13th, 2017 8:34 pm
...Groups that advocated for Mojave Trails National Monument disagree, saying they built overwhelming support for the monument during a nearly decade-long public campaign.
Frazier Haney, conservation director at the Mojave Desert Land Trust, was at a public meeting hosted by Feinstein in October 2015 to gather input on the proposed Mojave Trails, Sand to Snow and Castle Mountains national monuments. More than 1,000 people packed the Whitewater Preserve for the meeting, the vast majority of whom supported a presidential designation establishing the three monuments.
"For every ounce of public opposition, there was an overwhelming amount of public support," Haney said...