Under review in Nevada

The 22 national monuments under review by the Trump Administration include the two newest in Nevada.

Presidentbarackobamadesignated Basin and Range National Monument on 704,000 acres of federal land in remote Lincoln and Nye counties on July 10, 2015.

Then, on Dec. 28, 2016, a few weeks beforeleavingoffice,obamaagain invoked the Antiquities Act of 1906 to establish Gold Butte National Monument on 297,000 acres in northeastern Clark County, including land where jailed rancher Cliven Bundy has grazed his cattle for decades in defiance of the government.

As part of the review ordered by President Donald Trump, Interior

Secretary Ryan Zinke met with local stakeholders and toured the two Nevada monuments by helicopter on July 30. monuments deemed too large or too restrictive to public access and economic development.

There are a handful of examples of presidents reducing the size of national monuments over the past 100 years, but even Zinke has said it would be tricky and unprecedented for the president to rescind a monument altogether.

The Antiquities Act of 1906 grants the nation’s chief executive the authority to create monuments but includes no provisions for eliminating such declarations by previous presidents.

Contact Henry Brean at hbrean@ reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0350. Follow @Refriedbrean on Twitter.