Billings, Mont. – The lawyers of the administration of President Donald Trump say that they have the right to abolish national monuments, which means protecting historical and archaeological sites in a broader landscape Two in California made by their predecessors At the request of the original American tribes.

The legal opinion of a justice department released on Tuesday rejected a 1938 determination that the monuments built by the previous presidents under the ancient act could not be canceled. The department said that if there is no security warrant, the President can cancel memorial designations.

The discovery comes as an internal department under Trump, which weighs changes in monuments across the country as part of the push of administration to expand American energy production.

Senate Natural Resources Committee rankings Democrats New Mexico’s Sen Martin Henriques said on Trump’s orders, “His Justice Department is trying to clean a route to eradicate national monuments.”

Trump in his first term reduced the size of the bear’s ears and grand stairs Escalent national monuments in Utah, called them “large -scale land grab”. He also lifted fishing restrictions inside a huge marine monument from the New England coast.

Former President Joe Biden reversed the tricks and restored the monuments.

In the opinion of the newly released justice department, two monuments of the song were nominated by Biden in their last days in their last days: Chakwala National Monument in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park, and Satthela Highlands National Monument in North California.

Democrat’s declarations for monuments prevented oil and natural gas drilling and mining on a 624,000-acre Chakwala site, and nearly 225,000 acres of sáttítla highlands site near the California-Oragon border.

Chakwalla has natural miracles including Mecca Hills and Crocodile Rock’s painted valley, and the house of rare species of plants and animals such as desert bourne sheep and chakwala lizards. The Sátt state highlands include the Pitt River Tribe and the ancestral homes of the Modok people.

All but three presidents have used the 1906 antiquity Act to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources. About half of the national parks in the US were named as the first monuments.

But under Biden and Obama, critics of memorial designations say that protective boundaries were spread far away, which obstruct mining for important minerals.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Lanora Petit wrote in the opinion of the Trump administration that the conservation of Chakwalla and Satitala Highlands of Biden was part of the efforts of Democrats to create an environmental heritage for themselves, including hikes, bikes, camps or more space for hunting.

“Such activities are fully required in a park, but they are completely unrelated (if the scientific or historical monuments are not lump sum inconsistent with the protection of the monuments,” Petit has written.

In April, Trump removed the prohibition of commercial fishing within a detailed maritime monument in the Pacific Ocean built under former President Barack Obama.

Environmental groups said that the opinion of Tuesday’s justice department does not give them the right to shrink the monuments in the will.

“Americans supported and destroyed or destroyed our public land,” said Axi Navs with the Wilderness Society.

Biden established 10 new monuments, among them Springfield, the 1908 race riot site in Illinois, and another on a sacred original American site near Grand Canyon.

Since 1912, the presidents have released more than a dozen announcements that have reduced the monuments according to a National Park Service Database.

Dwight Eisenhwar was the most active in reducing the announcements of its predecessors as they had reduced six monuments, with arches in Uuta, great sand mounds in Colorado and Glacier Bay in Alaska, which have all become national parks.

In his first term, Trump’s steps were challenged by environmental groups to shrink Utah monuments, stating that protection of water supply and protection of wildlife, protecting cultural sites.

The cut was reversed by the biden before resolving the case, and it remains pending.

President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Archaeological Act after advocating by teachers and scientists, who wanted to loot artifacts by individuals and protect sites in a random manner. This was the first law in the US to establish legal protection for cultural and natural resources of historical or scientific interest on federal land.