Trump has the right idea, doing away with the Department of Education. The Department of Homeland Security also needs to go, with most agencies moved to the Justice Department and Defense Department, and the pointless agencies deleted. And while we’re at it, moving agencies like the US Forest Service to the Department of the Interior is a good first step in consolidating land management agencies into one department, followed by phasing out all but the Bureau of Land Management and the National Park Service. There is so much redundancy in public land management agencies.

I want to see codified that all national monuments be under the National Park Service, doing away with the huge illegal public land grabs set in motion by Clinton using agencies like the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service. It’s too easy to take multiple use public lands and restrict all but conservation claims. Transferring public lands from the BLM and USFS to the NPS is a solid way to ensure accountability in national monument designation.

Be prepared for the huge illegal land grabs in Utah and the Mojave Desert to be significantly reduced by President Trump. He already proved his willingness to use executive orders to undo the national monument executive orders of prior administrations, reducing non-NPS national monuments to reasonable sizes and opening public lands to wealth producing multiple use again.

And, the overturning of the Chevron Doctrine means internal agency regulators can’t stall implementation of his executive orders. Overturning Chevron is so much more powerful and relevant than overturning Roe v. Wade.

Drill, baby, drill. Mine, baby, mine. Graze, baby, graze.

There’s also the aesthetic that national monuments outside the NPS lack authenticity and validity. The non-NPS national monuments cheapen the prestige of our protected public lands. When it’s easy to illegally grab huge areas of public lands it’s akin to AI generated images. No thought, insight, or talent is expended, it’s just something that’s done flippantly.

I’m so excited about the forthcoming shake up with federally administered public lands. This opportunity to reorganize and streamline departments and agencies over the next four years can’t be squandered.