The land grab has already begun (under Clinton in the 90s) just ask any former rancher in southern Utah.
Here is what happened to a relative of mine.
Is this it?
Did quick search and found this:
Clinton pulls another western land grab
Human Events, Jan 28, 2000 by Park, Scott
There he goes again: On January 11, President Clinton unilaterally designated vast areas of Arizona and California as new national monuments without consulting Congress or local officials.
Clinton made a similar move on Sept. 18, 1996 when he signed an executive order designating 1.7 million acre of land in southern Utah as the Canyons of the Escalante National Monument. That land contained the nation's largest coal reserves.
Clinton's new land grab is only the latest assault in a federal campaign against real estate in the western United States that has been going on for decades-with a brief hiatus during the Reagan and Bush presidencies. Since 1960, the federal government has taken control of new acreage within the states equal in area to the entire state of Florida. Meanwhile, federal land-holding agencies are charging taxpayers 330% more in constant dollars to "manage" federal lands than they did in 1960.
Because the new lands that Clinton designated as monuments were already under federal control and already subject to federal land-use policies, there was no imminent environmental threat that required them to be permanently set aside in a status that prevents virtually all constructive economic use.
Two other rationales, however, suggest themselves: Clinton wanted to use raw executive power to influence the perception of his legacy among liberal environmentalists, and at the same time he wanted to boost enthusiasm among this group for Vice President Al Gore's struggling presidential campaign.
"The President is establishing a legacy of abuse," Sen. Larry Craig (R.-Idaho) told HUMAN EVENTS. "He started with the Office of the President and is moving on to the law and public process. He is abusing power, because the public has a right to be involved through the hearing process. This is driven by raw politics."
The Antiquities Act, under which Clinton created the new monuments, has been used only three times in the last 30 years. President Carter invoked it once, and now Clinton has employed it twice.
President 'Continues to Usurp'
It might seem odd that Gore, who authored a radical environmentalist call to arms titled Earth in the Balance, and who has championed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty, should be worried about his support from the environmentalist left. But Friends of the Earth recently endorsed Bill Bradley for the Democratic presidential nomination contest.
Sierra Club political director Dan Weiss told HUMAN EVENTS that his group credits Gore with playing an important role in identifying and designating the land for the new monuments. The Sierra Club has not yet endorsed a presidential candidate, said Weiss, but will look at a candidate's record as well as his positions, in making a selection.
Clinton's January 11 decree created three new national monuments and expanded a fourth:
* Agua Fria National Monument, Ariz.; 71, 100 acres.
* Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Ariz.; 1,014,000 acres.
* California Coastal National Monument, Calif.; covers all the rocks along the entire 814-mile California coast out to a distance of 12 miles.
* Pinnacles National Monument, Calif.; expands existing monument by 7,960 acres.
"The President continues to usurp the power of state legislatures and local officials," said Rep. George Radanovich (R.-Calif), who chairs the Western Caucus. "This circumvention of power by the President must be stopped by the Congress. Local voices deserve to be heard and we have to act in order to prevent the President's continued abuse of power on public lands issues."
Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination joined in the criticism of Clinton's move. "Governor Bush doesn't believe in the Clinton Administration's top-down dictatorial approach," said campaign aide Scott McClelland. "He believes in creating conservation partnerships between the federal government, states and communities." Sen. John McCain (R.-Ariz.), also running for President, complained during the January 10 Republican presidential debate in Michigan that the administration had taken the action "by fiat, without consulting anyone-not a single person who lives in Arizona."