Encyclopedia > National Monument

  Article Content

United States National Monument

Redirected from National Monument

A National Monument is the same as a National Park except the President of the United States can quickly declare an area of the United States to be a National Monument without approval from Congress.

The power to grant National Monuments came from Theodore Roosevelt who declared Devils Tower[?] as the very first National Monument. He thought congress was moving too slow and it would be ruined by the time they got around to making it a National Park.

United States National Monuments:



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Quioque, New York

... of 2000, there are 800 people, 336 households, and 192 families residing in the town. The population density is 245.1/km² (635.7/mi²). There are 545 housing ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 32 ms