3 New National Monuments Are Established by Obama
July 10, 2015, www.nytimes.com | “President Obama announced on Friday that he was designating new national monuments covering more than a million acres in California, Texas and Nevada, his latest use of executive power to preserve public land. Mr. Obama designated Berryessa Snow Mountain in California; a paleontological site in Texas known as Waco Mammoth; and the Basin and Range in Nevada, which includes rock art dating back 4,000 years, the White House said in a statement.”
New national monuments —Republicans have criticized the president for using the law that allows the designation of such sites more than any of his predecessors.www.nytimes.com|By Julie Hirschfeld Davis
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