On Jan. 11, 1908, Roosevelt had the foresight to designate the Grand Canyon National Monument. Years later, the unit became Grand Canyon National Park.
The Wilderness Society works to protect several areas around the Grand Canyon, including the Vermilion Cliffs and Grand Canyon Parashant National Monuments.
Can you imagine an America without the Grand Canyon or the Statue of Liberty preserved as they are? If it weren’t for the Antiquities Act, places like these may never have been protected.
When the Grand Canyon was named a National Park in 1919, the 44,000 guests who visited there that first year more than likely believed that the surrounding wild lands and waters would get the
