The other five on the list are marine monuments in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, including a huge reserve in Hawaii established in 2006 by President George W. Bush and expanded previous year by President Barack Obama.
Written comments relating to all other designations subject to Executive Order 13792 must be submitted within 60 days of that date.
Others in the collaborative who do not want to be quoted have said the letter will be friendly, nonpartisan and only reference the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, designated by President Barack Obama at a signing ceremony at Frank G. Bonelli Regional Park in San Dimas on October 10, 2014.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is keeping a promise to travel into rural Utah beginning this weekend to hear from locals who live around the new 1.35 million-acre Bears Ears monument and the established 1.8 million-acre Grand Staircase monument to the west.
A lot of the anger over federal public land in rural Utah today can be traced back to a windy, gray day in Arizona in September 1996.
Trump's order could only review the expanded area of Craters, but the order has the potential to upend protections on the land possibly expanding use for grazing, hunting and resource extraction.
The list released Friday includes 22 monuments on federal land in 11, mostly Western states, including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, Nevada's Basin and Range and Katahdin Woods and Waters in Maine.
"The whole argument that there hasn't been a public vetting of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument is false", said John Monsen, who represents the Sierra Club in the collaborative.
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Bayles and many of her neighbors felt offended when the federal government announced additional protections under a new monument because they felt it sent a message that the land was being threatened.
Critics of the review have said it could lead to reducing the size of national monuments or removing national monument designations signed into law by past presidents under the Antiquities Act.
The White House has criticized the use of the Antiquities Act of 1906 that gives presidents unique power to designate federal wildlands as national monuments.
Giant Sequoia and the Carrizo Plain, the second known recently for its super blooms, are among six national monuments in California that are eligible for Interior's review.
The request for comments "finally gives a voice to local communities and states when it comes to Antiquities Act monument designations", Zinke said in a statement. There is no pre-determined outcome on any monument.
The Northwest has seven national monuments.
Contrarily, supporters believe the designations preserve the land considered hallowed by Native Americans for centuries. At issue is whether the authority to make such designations should be left to one person - the president - or if local interests should have more say in the decision-making. "The land is sacred in Native American culture".
Conservation groups and outdoor enthusiasts are not happy with the national monuments' review status. And state lawmakers like Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, are also weighing in.




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