The establishment of this new monument is completely unnecessary. The old growth forests in this region are already protected, and clear-cutting is no longer an accepted forestry practice. This will simply eliminate sustainable timber harvest from a huge area, at the cost of jobs and revenues. Too, anyone who has investigated the backstory of the Malheur standoff knows that the conflict in that area stemmed from the BLM working to force property owners adjacent to the wildlife refuge to sell, often by dishonest and destructive means. This new proposal simply opens to the door for a new round of federal land grabs in the west. No thanks.