New Mexico senator calls out multiple factual errors in Secretary Zinke’s final monuments report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 12, 2018 DENVER—Today, the Bureau of Land Management auctioned leases to 2.85 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska for oil and gas development. Approximately 6 percent of the total acreage offered received bids from the industry. The lease sale netted a paltry $1.5 million, with leases selling for […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 27, 2018 DENVER—In response to President Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s announcement designating Camp Nelson in Nicholasville, Kentucky as a national monument, the Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from Executive Director Jennifer Rokala: “President Trump today invoked the Antiquities Act, a law he is single-handedly trying to […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 18, 2018 Updated analysis: Zinke is the subject of 18 open, closed, or requested investigations into his conduct DENVER—In response to today’s reporting by The Washington Post on a report from the Interior Department Inspector General into improper use of government vehicles by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his wife Lola, […]

“This is the Trump legacy. He is the first president in American history to try to strip protections from millions of acres set aside for our children and grandchildren.”

Congressman Bishop’s attack on the Antiquities Act is not a serious piece of legislation. It’s a manifesto put forward by the most anti-park members of Congress in American history.