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MONUMENTAL WORK

Below is the complete list of 21 national monuments established or expanded during the Clinton Administration through use of the 1906 Antiquities Act.

Name State Acres
     
Grand Staircase-Escalante NM Utah 1,900,000
Grand Canyon-Parashant NM Arizona 1,000,000
Agua Fria NM Arizona 71,000
California Coastal NM California 7,000
Pinnacles NM* California 8,000 added
Giant Sequioia NM California 328,000
Canyon of the Ancients NM Colorado 164,000
Cascade-Siskiyou NM Oregon 52,000
Hanford Reach NM Washington 195,000
Ironwood Forest NM Arizona 129,000
President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home NM Washington, DC
Vermillion Cliffs NM Arizona 293,000
Craters of the Moon NM* Idaho 661,000 added
Upper Missouri River Breaks NM Montana 377,000
Pompeys Pillar NM Montana 51
Carrizo Plain NM California 204,000
US Virgin Islands Coral Reef NM Virgin Islands 13,000
Buck Island Reef  NM* Virgin Islands 18,000 added
Sonoran Desert NM Arizona 486,000
Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks NM New Mexico 4,000
Minidoka Internment NM Idaho 70
     

*Existing National Monuments

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