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Cattlemen slam Biden over Arizona monument designation

While tribal leaders and environmental advocates celebrated President Biden’s latest national monument declaration, the National Cattleman’s Beef Association is calling it “presidential overreach.”

On Tuesday, the president scheduled an event in Red Butte, Arizona to announce nearly one million acres of land adjacent to the Grand Canyon will become the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. The move will stop potential uranium mining in the area while protecting land considered sacred to local tribes and Indigenous…

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