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Trump shrank 2 national monuments by nearly 2 million acres. He can't do that to Yellowstone.

December 5, 2017

President Trump may have just dramatically slashed the size of two national monuments in Utah, but America’s 59 national parks — as well as over 270 other national park sites — cannot be unilaterally downsized by Trump or any other president. 

The legal reason is simple and inarguable:

“National parks can only be established by Congress, and everyone agrees they can only be undone, if at all, by Congress,” Holly Doremus, a natural resources law expert at University of California, Berkeley, told Mashable in an email. 

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Source: Mashable | Trump shrank 2 national monuments by nearly 2 million acres. He can't do that to Yellowstone.

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