Colorado's Browns Canyon Designated as National Monument

Yesterday the President declared 21,000 acres in Colorado along the the Arkansas River known as Browns Canyon as a national monument.Executive Vice President of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Association Terry Fankhauser says
Fankhauser: “Fundamentally we still oppose these declarations. The reason we oppose them not only the multiple use issue and there is some of that clearly relinquished whenever one of these declarations take place. But also because even though grazing is intimated at being allowed as a example through Wilderness Act and Monument Acts and things along those lines it really doesn’t play out cleanly that way. In fact it is very difficult to management those grazing allotments. There is a sense that there has to be a full-on NEPA — National Environmental Policy Act — process that goes into place before they very minor things — like repair fences, or putting water tanks in or cleaning springs. And you can imagine you are not able to provide water in some of these very arid, rugged landscapes the permit becomes unusable. So it is very important that we secure those provisions in this declaration at a very detailed level otherwise those permitees have a very questionable future.”