1. United States
2. Fla.
3. Letter

Urge Congress to keep federal protections for all of our national monuments. Selling off our public lands, including national monuments is a dangerous step towards dismantling protections for national monuments in favor of unrestrained and speculative fossil fuel and mining development.  The NEPA says that public land sales are a Public policy that the public gets to weigh in on, not a blanket sale attached to a bill. Do not alter the NEPA to balance a budget to sell OUR land back to us after it gets destroyed by development, logging, or drilling. Places like Devils Tower, the very first national monument designated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906, could face renewed risk of industrial fossil fuel development. This bill pushed through in the reconciliation aims to dismantle over a century of protections, threatening to open up monuments from Pisgah and the Great Smoky Mountains to Devils Tower to Bears Ears with a dangerous bill designed to prioritize industrial energy development at all costs. If we lose these places to logging, oil and gas development, we forfeit a century-old legacy that we will not pass on to our grandchildren. We can’t let that happen on our watch. I am very concerned about the bill amendment to sell off or public lands and National Forests without public review an participation. This puts at risk some of our treasured national park monuments in favor of unrestrained and speculative fossil fuel and mining development. I urge you to take our national monuments off the table as you work towards the president’s goal of energy dominance. National Parks an monuments are part of what make America great. Don't take it for granted. Millions of acres of public land are already leased to oil and gas companies for fossil fuel extraction, with over 12 million acres currently under active oil and gas drilling out of 24 million acres under lease. We don’t need to sacrifice our national monuments. Please protect our national parks.    Thank you for considering my views.