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] These areas are included in the list of proposed National Monuments in the next section and marked with a blue-green background.

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 nearm 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] Status External information
Bears Ears[note 2] 150px Utah
Map		 1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) ClockC
Petition by five tribes
on October 15, 2015		 Bears Ears Coalition
Bodie Hills California
Birthplace of Rivers 100px West Virginia
Map		 122,000 acres (49,000 ha)[3] ClockC Petition by Keen BirthplaceofRivers.org
West Virginia Rivers Coalition
Video by Pew & This American Land
Expansion of
Cascade-Siskiyou[note 3]		 Soda-Mtn-LG.jpg California
Cedar Mesa region Utah
Map		 256,000 acres (104,000 ha) Symbol deferred.svg see Bears Ears [note 2] Utah Public Lands Initiative with ArcGIS map
Greater Canyonlands[note 3] Upper Comb Wash
in Greater Canyonlands		 Utah
Map
Threats		 1,800,000 acres (730,000 ha)[4] Symbol deferred.svg see also Bears Ears[note 2] Greater Canyonlands Coalition
Utah Public Lands Initiative with ArcGIS map
Gold Butte [5] 150px Nevada
Map
ACEC Map		 350,000 acres (140,000 ha) ClockC Pending legislation [6]
Petition by Keen		 Friends of Gold Butte
Friends of Nevada Wilderness
Video by Pew & This American Land
Greater Grand Canyon Heritage [7] Grand Canyon National Park, North Rim in Arizona.jpg Arizona
map		 1,700,000 acres (690,000 ha) ClockC Pending legislation [8] 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) N as of February 2010
Maine Woods[4] Mouth of Moose River from Mount Kineo.jpg Maine
Map		 3,200,000 acres (1,300,000 ha) Pro: RESTORE the North Woods
National Resources Council of Maine
Contra: Maine Woods Coalition
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) N as of April 2012
Otero Mesa 150px New Mexico 1,200,000 acres (490,000 ha) N as of February 2010
Owyhee Canyonlands[note 3] 150px Oregon 2,100,000 acres (850,000 ha)[4] Oregon Natural Desert Association
Owyhee Desert Oregon/Nevada
San Rafael Swell I70 at San Rafael swell-Green River.jpg Utah N as of 2013 Utah Public Lands Initiative with ArcGIS map
The Modoc Plateau Pit River Valley.jpg California 3,000,000 acres (1,200,000 ha)[9] Video by Los Angeles Times
Vermillion Basin Colorado

Formerly proposed National Monuments

Some areas have been proposed as a National Monument earlier, but are no longer eligible to be listed above, because they are protected somehow now, e.g. as National Monument, National Park or Wilderness Area in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Some reasons for nevertheless keeping them in the following list might be:

  • The proposed area is now included in another, larger area which is protected meanwhile. (Symbol: Symbol deferred.svg)
  • A smaller part of the originally proposed area is now protected. (Symbol: Checkhalf.png)
  • The area was officially proposed for monument designation by a federal or state agency or department, e.g. in the memorandum mentioned above, and is finally protected now. Those entries are marked with a blue-green background. (Symbol: Green tickY)
Proposed Name Photo Location Area [note 1] Status External information
Berryessa Snow Mountains 150px California 330,780 acres (133,860 ha) Green tickY July 15, 2015 U.S. Forest Service
Boulder-White Clouds Scoop Lake, Custer County, Idaho.JPG Idaho 570,000 acres (230,000 ha)[4] Checkhalf.png August 7, 2015 [note 4] BoulderWhiteClouds.org
The Wilderness Society
Rocky Mountain Front[4] 2009-0603-10-Air-RockyMountainFront.jpg Montana
Map		 275,000 acres (111,000 ha) Checkhalf.png December 19, 2014 [10] [note 5] Save the Front
San Juan Islands 150px Washington
Map		 1,000 acres (400 ha) Green tickY March 25, 2013 Bureau of Land Management

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 The proposed Bears Ears National Monuments includes most of the proposed Cedar Mesa region National Monument and the southern part of the proposed Greater Canyonlands National Monument.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Links to the protected area which will be extended
  4. ↑ A smaller area than the proposed National Monument was designated as wilderness in August 2015
  5. ↑ Instead of a National Monument designation the "Rocky Mountain Front Conservation Management Area" was established and 67,112 acres of land were designated as additions to existing components of the "National Wilderness Preservation System" in the Lewis and Clark National Forest.

References

  1. ↑ 16 U.S.C. § 431 § 432, and § 433. U.S. Code collection. Cornell University Law School. Retrieved on 11 February 2009.
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