Monument in the red rock.(Pres. Clinton declares 1.7 million acres in Utah's red-rock wilderness a national monument called Grand Staircase Escalante)(Brief Article)

From: Newsweek | Date: September 30, 1996| Author: Glick, Daniel; Begley, Sharon | Copyright information

Clinton puts 1.7 million acres out of harm's way

BILL CLINTON HAS ACTED LIKE A lot of Republicans lately, and last week he got to play Theodore Roosevelt. It was Roosevelt, back in 1908, who used the (then) two-year-old Antiquities Act to designate the Grand Canyon a national monument. In cowboy boots and khaki, standing on the canyon's south rim, Clinton invoked the same law to declare 1.7 million acres of southern Utah's red-rock wilderness, much of it already federall...

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