Obama creates Pinnacles National Park in California
Thursday, January 10, 2013
If seeing the national parks is on your bucket list, it's time to take note and add another park to the list. Pinnacles, the dramatic volcanic-spired national monument in central California, is now Pinnacles National Park.
The Wilderness Society today applauded Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and President Obama for holding a public hearing on the permanent protection of Rio Grande del Norte in northern New Mexico.
How the Bureau of Land Management manages our National Conservation Lands over the coming years will be just as important as was designating these places for protection in the first place.
Our conservation lands face many challenges: understaffing, underfunding and shifting political priorities. The system’s lands and waters are also threatened by development, vandalism and neglect.
From Alaska to New York, national monuments can be found in every region of the United States. In total, there are more than 100 existing national monuments for you to explore.
