List of proposed National Monuments of the United States

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] Utah
Map
1,900,000 acres (770,000 ha) Clock
Petition by five tribes
on October 15, 2015
Bears Ears Coalition
Bodie Hills California
Birthplace of Rivers West Virginia
Map
122,000 acres (49,000 ha)[3] Clock Petition by Keen BirthplaceofRivers.org
West Virginia Rivers Coalition
Video by Pew & This American Land
Expansion of
Cascade-Siskiyou[note 3]
California
Cedar Mesa region Utah
Map
256,000 acres (104,000 ha) 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] see also Bears Ears[note 2] Greater Canyonlands Coalition
Utah Public Lands Initiative with ArcGIS map
Gold Butte [5] Nevada
Map
ACEC Map
350,000 acres (140,000 ha) Clock 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] Arizona
map
1,700,000 acres (690,000 ha) Clock 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 New Mexico 58,000 acres (23,000 ha) as of February 2010
Maine Woods[4] Maine
Map
3,200,000 acres (1,300,000 ha) Maine Woods Coalition
RESTORE the North Woods
National Resources Council of Maine
Montana's Northern Prairie Montana 2,500,000 acres (1,000,000 ha)
Northwest Sonoran Desert Arizona 500,000 acres (200,000 ha) as of April 2012
Otero Mesa New Mexico 1,200,000 acres (490,000 ha) as of February 2010
Owyhee Canyonlands[note 3] Oregon 2,100,000 acres (850,000 ha)[4] Oregon Natural Desert Association
Owyhee Desert Oregon/Nevada
San Rafael Swell Utah as of 2013 Utah Public Lands Initiative with ArcGIS map
The Modoc Plateau 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:

Proposed Name Photo Location Area [note 1] Status External information
Berryessa Snow Mountains California 330,780 acres (133,860 ha) Green tick July 15, 2015 U.S. Forest Service
Boulder-White Clouds Idaho 570,000 acres (230,000 ha)[4] August 7, 2015 [note 4] BoulderWhiteClouds.org
The Wilderness Society
Rocky Mountain Front[4] Montana
Map
275,000 acres (111,000 ha) December 19, 2014 [10] [note 5] Save the Front
San Juan Islands Washington
Map
1,000 acres (400 ha) Green tick March 25, 2013 Bureau of Land Management

Notes

  1. 1 2 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. 1 2 3 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. 1 2 3 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.
  2. 1 2 "Prospective Conservation Designation: National Monument designation under the Antiquities Act" (PDF). Congressman Rob Bishop's House.gov website. 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. 1 2 3 4 5 Wuerthner, Georg (6 June 2014). "A Tentative List of Potential National Monuments". The Wildlife News. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  5. Burr, Thomas (30 July 2014). "12 most likely places Obama may make a national monument". Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved 19 March 2016.
  6. Reid, Harry (20 January 2015). "Gold Butte National Conservation Area Act". congress.gov.
  7. Clark, Roger (14 October 2015). "3 Things about the New Grand Canyon National Monument". Grand Canyon Trust. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  8. Grijalva, Raul (3 November 2015). "Greater Grand Canyon Heritage National Monument Act". congress.gov.
  9. Wuerthner, George (19 February 2010). "Wuerthner re: Obama's New National Monuments - Native Forest Council". Native Forest Council. Retrieved 8 March 2016.
  10. "Joint press statement from members of the Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front on passage of the Rocky Mountain Front Heritage Act". Save the Front. 12 December 2014. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
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