National Monuments
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- African Burial Ground National Monument
- Agate Fossil Beds National Monument
- Agua Fria National Monument
- Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument
- Aniakchak National Monument & Preserve
- Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve
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- Aztec Ruins National Monument
- Bandelier National Monument
- Bears Ears National Monument
- Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument
- Booker T. Washington National Monument
- Buck Island Reef National Monument
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- Cabrillo National Monument
- California Coastal National Monument
- Canyon de Chelly National Monument
- Canyons of the Ancients National Monument
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Until it is clear that the president had the proper authority to shrink both the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, we urge you not to move forward with developing any management plans for these monuments.
Federal lands, including those designated as national monuments, are for all the people.
It also would nearly halve the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, also in southern Utah, splitting it into three units.
Trump's order reduces the size of the iconic Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah, where numerous dinosaur fossils have been found.
Reducing areas protected as national monuments, including Cascade- Siskiyou, would offer financial benefits for a few companies and individuals.
Under the Antiquities Act, a president can declare certain areas of historic or scientific interest a national monument.
Fortunately, in 2014, when President Obama expanded the Pacific Remote Island Marine National Monument through Executive Order 12962, he amended the details of the EO by adding EO 13474, which allows for recreational fishing and acknowledges that recreational fishing is a sustainable use of a public resource.
Declaring national monuments is a very important component of his plan for "audacious" executive action.
A third new Park Service designation, the First State National Monument, preserves an urban oasis along the Brandywine River in Delaware--the only state in the country lacking a Park Service site.
With Proclamation 6920, President Clinton also succeeded in laying the groundwork for a change of direction for both national monuments and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
Q & A with Cynthia Light Brown, author of National Monuments, National Wonders
The million-acre sandstone landscape exemplifies the "mixed use" phenomenon on BLM lands and has been the site of water rights disputes and failed attempts to designate it as a National Monument, a Wilderness Study Area, and a National Conservation Area.
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