Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke capped off a recent presidentially mandated review of national monuments by declaring, “I am an advocate to never sell or transfer public land, and so is the president.”
Zinke also said that ranchers are, “as much a part of the culture of a lot of these monuments as some of the objects,” while in Bunkerville, Nevada, site of the infamous 2014 standoff between racist antigovernment rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, an agency that Zinke now oversees. If you recall, Bundy called on antigovernment extremists to shut down I-15 and force law enforcement officers to stand down at gunpoint.