New National Monuments in the Works

Travel Blog  •  Eva Holland  •  02.22.10 | 11:53 AM ET

Photo of Nevada’s Great Basin by Alaskan Dude via Flickr (Creative Commons)

The federal government has drawn up a list of potential new national monuments, mostly in the southwestern states—and this New York Times story explains why some local politicians see the move as “a land-grab device for East Coast politicians.” Regional politics aside, shouldn’t “Lesser Prairie Chicken National Monument” be something we can all get behind?

Tags: National Parks, Politics, North America, United States, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. Her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


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