New national monuments in the USA
This video from the USA says about itself:
Meet Gold Butte: Nevada‘s Piece of The Grand Canyon
21 January 2015
Get to know a treasure of the Mojave Desert, and how you can help preserve it.
From the New York Times in the USA:
Obama Designates Two New National Monuments, Protecting 1.65 Million Acres
By CORAL DAVENPORT
DEC. 28, 2016
WASHINGTON — President Obama designated two new national monuments on Wednesday, protecting 1.35 million acres of federal land surrounding the Bears Ears Buttes in southeastern Utah and about 300,000 acres around Gold Butte in Nevada, northeast of Las Vegas.
In Gold Butte, there is ancient Native American rock art.
There are also fossils from the Palaeozoic and later fossil dinosaur tracks.
The monuments are Mr. Obama’s latest effort to protect public lands and waters from development and to nail down as much of his environmental legacy…
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