Environmental activists gathered in a fake ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday to protest Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s proposal to downsize a massive national monument that spans northern California and southern Oregon by naming a public toilet after him. According to the
Eureka Times-Standard,
the Humboldt County environmental groups chose “to give a Zinke a
monument of his own: a toilet,” in response to his plan to “downsize the
more than 170,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon and
California to allow more timber harvesting.”
The
Times-Standard reported:
“We’re doing this to call out Secretary Zinke for his bad
actions, to let him know that his idea stinks,” Environmental
Protection Information Center [EPIC] Executive Director Tom Wheeler
said.
Standing before the vault toilet at the Ma-le’l Dunes’ south entrance
in Manila on Saturday morning, representatives of the Northcoast
Environmental Center and EPIC cut a ribbon with a giant pair of scissors
to mark the occasion.
To comply with the Antiquities Act mandate for "smallest area" this should be downsized to a one-holer.
However, since Zinke just dumped all over the ranchers and other users of federal lands in southern NM, this monument may be more appropriate than some might think.
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