{"id":1564,"date":"2014-05-22T07:50:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2014-05-22T07:50:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T13:50:25","slug":"a-monumental-day-for-nm-albuquerque-journal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1564","title":{"rendered":"A monumental day for NM | Albuquerque Journal News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Note that the largest area protected is west of Las Cruces. This includes favorite areas for ATV-abusers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/404145\/news\/a-monumental-day-for-nm.html\">A monumental day for NM | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/main.abqjournal.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/OrganMtns_DesertPeaks_Monument_Map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; display: inline\" alt=\"OrganMtns_DesertPeaks_Monument_Map\" src=\"http:\/\/main.abqjournal.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/OrganMtns_DesertPeaks_Monument_Map-434x600.jpg\" width=\"434\" align=\"right\" height=\"600\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am grateful for the incredible partnership of so many residents of this region \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including ranchers and tribal leaders and hunters \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and many of you here today, especially Senators Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall and former Senator Jeff Bingaman, who were instrumental in helping preserve this treasured landscape,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Obama said.  <\/p>\n<p>The stroke of the president\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pen set aside 496,000 acres of federal land in five south-central New Mexico mountain ranges as a national monument, bypassing Congress to ensure the rugged but scenic country is protected for future generations. The moment marked Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 12th use of the Antiquities Act to establish a national monument, and he vowed it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be his last.  <\/p>\n<p>The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks monument was the second national monument Obama has designated in New Mexico. He established the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in March 2013.  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve preserved more than 3 million acres of public lands for future generations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and I am not finished,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the president said Wednesday, referring to his national effort.  <\/p>\n<p>The southern New Mexico land, currently managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management, is home to ancient petroglyphs and lava flows, rare plants and animals and vast recreational and hunting areas.  <\/p>\n<p>While the mood was joyous in the Interior Department\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s auditorium Wednesday, not all New Mexicans were pleased with the decision.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/404145\/news\/a-monumental-day-for-nm.html\">A monumental day for NM | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note that the largest area protected is west of Las Cruces. This includes favorite areas for ATV-abusers. A monumental day for NM | Albuquerque Journal News \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I am grateful for the incredible partnership of so many residents of this region \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including ranchers and tribal leaders and hunters \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and many of you here today, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/?p=1564\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A monumental day for NM | Albuquerque Journal News<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newmexico","category-wildlands"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ahwilderness.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}