Sixteen claims follow the president opening up most of the reserve sacred to Native Americans to mining and drilling.

Agency chief Lee Zeldin had planned the repeal as part a slew of proposals he called “the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history.”

The National Park Service replaced panels that discussed the horrors of slavery and George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people.

Independent Sen. Angus King joined them in alleging that “much, if not all” of the revenue from online sales of park passes is going toward D.C. "vanity projects."

The sale of 72,000 acres in leases is nonetheless a step toward extraction in the wilderness home to caribou and polar bears.