Trump Goes West

The Political Scene | The New Yorker | Dec 7, 2017

This week, President Trump announced plans to drastically reduce the size of two national monuments, Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Michelle Nijhaus joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the longstanding battle between conservation and development in the American West, and the Administration's wider policy of environmental despoliation.

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