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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Susan Montoya Bryan

Biden adds to the nation's list of national monuments during his term. There's an appetite for more

National Monuments Biden - (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt did in 1906 what Congress was unwilling to do through legislation: He used his new authority under the Antiquities Act to designate Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first national monument.

Then came Antiquities Act protections for the Petrified Forest in Arizona, Chaco Canyon and the Gila Cliff Dwellings in New Mexico, the Grand Canyon, Death Valley in California, and what are now Zion and Bryce Canyon national parks in Utah.

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