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Obama Designates Half-Million Acre National Monument in New Mexico
Denver Nicks
8:37 PM ET
... President Barack Obama Wednesday signed a proclamation turning half a million acres of land in New Mexico into a national monument protected from development.
The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument is now the largest national monument created during Obama’s tenure in office, twice the size of what was formerly the biggest, the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, also in New Mexico. The protected area, near Las Cruces, includes petroglyphs from three indigenous societies, canyons, mountains and desert grasslands, a volcanic field and a petrified forest ...
http://time.com/108447/organ-mountains-desert-peaks-national-monument/