Ecological-Economic CONTEXTIn April 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order tasking the Department of Interior to review 27 national monuments and 5 marine national monuments. It will soon decide whether to rescind the protective designations, to make the monuments smaller, or to keep their extent and degree of protection intact. An important part of the process has been the collection of public input, and Department of Interior has received comments from more than 2.8 million people. Key findingsIn an innovative analysis employing crowdsourcing and machine-learning, Key-Log Economics analyzed and reviewed ALL 1.3 million comments submitted during the public comment period. Key findings from the study include:
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"More than 99.2% of the people who commented on President Donald Trump's national-monuments review were in complete agreement: Leave the monuments alone."
-Christopher Solomon, Outside Magazine Contributing Editor
-Christopher Solomon, Outside Magazine Contributing Editor
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