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National monuments protect a wide variety of natural and historic resources, including sites of geologic, marine, archaeological, and cultural importance. [1] The Antiquities Act of 1906 gives presidents the power to proclaim national monuments by executive action. In contrast, national parks in the U.S. must be created by Congressional ...
A cornerstone of his actions focused on the issue of conservation, [1] and Roosevelt set aside more national parks and nature preserves than all of his predecessors combined. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At the time, Roosevelt's executive action was controversial, [ 4 ] and many of his actions were brought before a court.
For an area to become a unit of the National Park System, it must possess nationally significant natural, cultural, or recreational resources; be a suitable [a] and feasible [b] addition to the system; and require direct management by the National Park Service (NPS) (rather than protection by the private sector or other governmental agencies).
RELATED: Most visited national parks Obama has used the Antiquities act and other measures to protect more land and water than any administration in history, the White House said in a statement.
There are over 100 National Monuments in the United States. [5] Presidential use of the Antiquities Act to declare a National Monument: President Bill Clinton used the law to expand 3 monuments and start 19 [2] President George W. Bush used the law to create five monuments [2] President Barack Obama has used the act ten times as of March 24 ...
Visitors must access it by personal boat or via a National Park Service concessionaire — a seven-hour trip that requires a 1.5-mile hike at the end — or by backpacking a 14-mile, two-day ...
In an effort to save on cash processing and hand handling fees, 22 national parks have gone cashless as of 2023. In September 2023, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) proposed the "Protecting Access to Recreation with Cash Act" (PARC) which would require national parks to accept cash as a form of payment for entrance fee. [13]
The America the Beautiful Pass (also known as the Interagency Pass) series comprises annual or lifetime passes that grant the holder entrance to more than 2,000 federally protected areas including national parks, national monuments, and other protected areas managed by six federal agencies: the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Bureau of Land ...