List of proposed national monuments of the United States

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The President of the United States can establish a national monument by presidential proclamation, and the United States Congress can by legislation. The Antiquities Act of 1906 authorized the president to proclaim "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest" as national monuments.[1]

Interior Department memorandum[]

In a 2010 "Not for Release" memorandum by the United States Department of the Interior, 14 areas were listed in the "Prospective Conservation Designation" attachment as "good candidates for National Monument designation under the Antiquities Act".[2] Those areas are included in the lists below, shaded bluish-green.

In subsequent attachments in the same draft, "areas worthy of protection that are ineligible for Monument Designation and unlikely to receive legislative protection in the near term" and "cost estimates" of "high priority land-rationalization efforts" were listed.[2]

Proposed national monuments[]

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Proposed name Photo Location Area [note 1] External information
Bodie Hills April -conservationlands15 -bucketlist- Bodie Hills, California, for Wildflowers, Wildlife and One-of-a-Kind Ghost Town! (16540820773).jpg California
Birthplace of Rivers Falls-of-hills-creek-wv.jpg West Virginia
Map 		122,000 acres (49,000 ha)[3] BirthplaceofRivers.org
West Virginia Rivers Coalition
Video by Pew & This American Land
Douglas-Fir National Monument Oregon 530,000 acres

(214,500 ha)

Friends of Douglas-Fir National Monument
Expansion of
Cascade-Siskiyou[note 2] 		Soda-Mtn-LG.jpg California
Greater Canyonlands[note 2] Upper Comb Wash
in Greater Canyonlands 		Utah
Map
Threats 		1,800,000 acres (730,000 ha)[4] Greater Canyonlands Coalition
Utah Public Lands Initiative with ArcGIS map
Greater Grand Canyon Heritage[5] Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim in Arizona.jpg Arizona
map 		1,700,000 acres (690,000 ha) Greater Grand Canyon Watershed
Grand Canyon Waters, at the Abyss (New York Times)
Heart of the Great Basin Nevada
Lesser Prairie Chicken Preserve Lesser Prairie Chicken, New Mexico.jpg New Mexico 58,000 acres (23,000 ha)
Montana's Northern Prairie Montana 2,500,000 acres (1,000,000 ha)
Northwest Sonoran Desert Sonoran Desert 33.081359 n112.431507.JPG Arizona 500,000 acres (200,000 ha)
Otero Mesa Otero Mesa.jpg New Mexico 1,200,000 acres (490,000 ha)
Owyhee Canyonlands[note 2] Owyhee River Wilderness A.jpg Oregon 2,100,000 acres (850,000 ha)[4] Oregon Natural Desert Association
Owyhee Desert 2013-07-21 11 39 02 View west across the Owyhee Desert, Nevada from Elko County Route 728 (Owyhee Road) along the foothills of the Bull Run Mountains.jpg Oregon/Nevada
Range of Light
South Fork of the Merced River.jpg
California Approximately 1,427,750 acres Unite the Parks

Range of Light Video featuring Frank Helling as the voice of John Muir

San Rafael Swell I70 at San Rafael swell-Green River.jpg Utah Utah Public Lands Initiative with ArcGIS map
Sutton Mountain Oregon 66,000 acres Oregon Natural Desert Association
The Modoc Plateau Pit River Valley.jpg California 3,000,000 acres (1,200,000 ha)[6] Video by Los Angeles Times
Vermillion Basin Colorado

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Area according to the memorandum if included there, otherwise according to the campaign website or the official area if the national monument has been established meanwhile.
  2. ^ a b c Links to the protected area which will be extended

References[]

  1. ^ 16 U.S.C. § 431 § 432, and § 433. U.S. Code collection. Cornell University Law School. Retrieved on 11 February 2009.
  2. ^ a b "Prospective Conservation Designation: National Monument designation under the Antiquities Act" (PDF). Congressman Rob Bishop's House.gov website. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  3. ^ Graham Averill (9 September 2013). "Will Birthplace of Rivers Be West Virginia's First National Monument?". Blueridgeoutdoors.com. Retrieved March 19, 2016.
  4. ^ a b Wuerthner, Georg (6 June 2014). "A Tentative List of Potential National Monuments". The Wildlife News. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. ^ Clark, Roger (14 October 2015). "3 Things about the New Grand Canyon National Monument". Grand Canyon Trust. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  6. ^ Wuerthner, George (19 February 2010). "Wuerthner re: Obama's New National Monuments - Native Forest Council". Native Forest Council. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
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