{"id":1759,"date":"2016-02-19T14:49:33","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.granitestatefutures.org\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2016-02-19T14:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T19:49:33","slug":"obamas-land-grabs-by-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/2016\/02\/19\/obamas-land-grabs-by-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Land Grabs by Executive Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In a move that has environmental militants exulting and western farmers, ranchers, and property owners fuming, President Obama has locked up 1.8 million acres by executive fiat, with the stroke of a pen. Millions more acres are planned to follow, part of the Obama administration\u2019s boast to use \u201caudacious executive actions\u201d \u2014 read unconstitutional usurpations \u2014 to advance his radical \u201ctransformative\u201d agenda during his last months in office.<\/p>\n<p>While in California on a fundraising expedition, President Obama took time on February 12 to sign an executive order proclaiming three new national monuments, imposing the strictest of federal restrictions on 1.8 million acres of the Golden State. The three new illegally created monuments are Mojave Trails National Monument (1.6 million acres), the Sand to Snow National Monument (154,000 acres), and the Castle Mountains National Monument (21,000 acres).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewamerican.com\/usnews\/constitution\/item\/22565-monumental-audacity-obama-grabs-huge-western-lands-by-executive-order\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that has environmental militants exulting and western farmers, ranchers, and property owners fuming, President Obama has locked up 1.8 million acres by executive fiat, with the stroke of a pen. Millions more acres are planned to follow, part of the Obama administration\u2019s boast to use \u201caudacious executive actions\u201d \u2014 read unconstitutional usurpations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granitestatefutures.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}