(Katherine Frey/The Washington Post)Outdoor goods retailers Patagonia, REI and the North Face are firing back against President Trump’s executive order this week that would drastically reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah. “The president stole your land,” reads an overlay on Patagonia’s website posted Monday afternoon. “This is the largest elimination of protected land in American history.”A image of Patagonia’s homepage on Tuesday morning, following President Trump’s executive order to eliminate large swaths of public land. They’re wrong.”“They don’t know your land, and truly, they don’t care for your land like you do,” he added. The billionaire owner, who has spent the past four decades building a company focused on environmental issues and worker well-being, says he plans to take legal action against Trump.

Source: Washington Post December 05, 2017 21:18 UTC