Natural History Wanderings

On March 22 I wrote about the possibility of a new Bay Area National Monument.  The L.A. Times recently reported on fourteen possible new national monuments including four in California.  The four proposed areas are:

1. Berryessa-Snow Mountain, Calif.
2. Bodie Hills, Calif.
3. Cascade-Siskiyou, Calif.
4. Modoc Plateau, Calif.
5. Heart of the Great Basin, Nev.
6. San Rafael Swell, Utah
7. Northern Prairie, Mont.
8. Lesser Prairie Chicken Preserve, N.M.
9. Otero Mesa, N.M.
10. Northwest Sonoran Desert, Ariz.
11. Owyhee Desert, Oregon/Nevada
12. Vermillion Basin, Colo.
13. Cedar Mesa, Utah
14. San Juan Islands, Wash.

To read more about the proposed national monuments go to the L.A. Times:
National monuments? Maybe they will be

Audubon wrote that on August 5 Senator Barbara Boxer introduced a bill that Pinnacles National Monument be made a national Park.

Related Articles

• California’s Potential National Monuments (huffingtonpost.com)