The US interior secretary has identified a total of 10 national monuments to reshape or repurpose in order to allow for logging, mining and grazingA total of 10 US national monuments are in the Trump administration’s sights to be either resized or repurposed, in order to allow activities such as mining, logging and grazing within their borders. Here are the 10 national monuments identified for change by Ryan Zinke, the secretary of the interior. The Trump administration's national monuments 'review' is a sham | Brian Calvert Read moreBears EarsDesignated in December 2016 by Barack Obama, Bears Ears national monument is a 1.35m-acre expanse of mesas, buttes and Native American archaeological sites that sprawls across south-eastern Utah. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Toadstool Paria Rimrocks at sunset, near Kanab, Grand Staircase-Escalante national monument, in Utah. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coral is seen off Jarvis Island, part of the remote and uninhabited Pacific island chains set aside as national monuments.

Source: The Guardian September 18, 2017 20:24 UTC