#antiquitiesact

[joshschutz]

Current Status. 

[phillynessa]

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal, operated from 1831 to 1924. The canal's principal cargo was coal from the Allegheny Mountains. The canal way is now maintained as the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, with a trail that follows the old towpath. In 1961 he canal was established as a National Monument by President #DwightDEisenhower to preserve the neglected remains and many of its original structures. The canal and towpath trail extends along the #PotomacRiver from Georgetown, Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Maryland, a distance of 184.5 miles (296.9 km). The national monument designation in the 1961 #AntiquitiesAct hardened the opposition to making the canal a national park. There was some support for making the Potomac River a national river instead. Within ten years, the political climate had changed, and realizing that the national river plan was unsupportable, the idea of turning the canal into a historic park had little opposition. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park Act established the park as it exists today; President #RichardNixon signed it into law on January 8, 1971. The park includes nearly 20,000 acres (80 km²) in a strip along the Potomac River. The canal begins at its zero mile marker (accessible only via Thompson's Boat House) opposite the #Watergate complex. Author John Kelly, writing for the Washington Post in 2004, suggested that the name of the Watergate complex may derive from its location directly adjacent to the canal's zero milepost, where to this day, the canal's large wooden gate sits directly on the Potomac and adjacent to the complex. Kelly wrote that a canal lock is "quite literally, a water gate." Current restoration and construction efforts include restoring and rewatering the #ConococheagueAqueduct, restoring Locks 3 and 4, repairs at #GreatFalls (Lock 20) and Swain's Lock (Lock 21). #dmvnessa #marylandisbeaut #findyourpark (at C&O Canal National Historic Park) https://www.instagram.com/p/CDb7W1OBNAO/?igshid=ku00tmedulsa

[mkerugbyprop3]

Some backcountry camping in #GrandTeton. #fall #MyGrandTeton #Wyoming #optoutside #adventure #findyourpark #fypyes #nikond3000 #outdoors #keepitwild #keepitpublic #parks101 #tetons #grandtetonsnationalpark #npwest #mountains #thatswy #antiquitiesact #savetheantiquitiesact #aacgram #LoveIsOutThereContest (at Grand Teton National Park)

[crackens]

Afternoon sun filters through the coastal redwoods at Muir Woods National Monument. Designated by President Teddy Roosevelt in 1908 under the Antiquities Act. These aren't the tallest redwoods in California but being just a short drive outside of San Francisco they are certainly some of the most popular. #muirwoods #coastalcalifornia #redwoods #hiking #antiquitiesact #findyourpark

[protectgrandcanyon]

Thanks to the #AntiquitiesAct, Sunset Crater #Volcano #NationalMonument was protected by Pres. Hoover from a 1930's Hollywood film crew that wanted to blow it up to make a forgettable movie. It erupted about 1085 CE, making it the youngest volacano in the San Francisco Peaks area of northern #Arizona. Many people living in the area at the time witnessed the eruption and even farmed in the volcanic ash for years afterward. Another great place saved with a National Monument designation. #grateful #thankful #monumentsforall #protectgrandcanyon #sunsetcrater #sunsetcratervolcanonationalmonument #findyourpark

[juliovillanueva]

El fin de una ley sin sentido e injusta para los 50 Estados Gracias Presidente Trump #AntiquitiesAct #DonladTrimp PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THE ANTIQUITIES ACT “Today, we are putting the states back in charge.” – President Donald J. Trump The previous administration used a 100-year-old law known as the Antiquities Act to unilaterally put millions of acres of land and water under strict federal control, eliminating the ability of the people who actually live in those states to decide how best to use that land. The Antiquities Act does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water, and it is time we ended this abusive practice. This executive order will end this egregious abuse of federal power, and give that power back to the states and to the people, where it belongs (at Meadow Creek)

[goparks]

Silhouetted against the vast Wyoming sky, the monolith known as Devils Tower looks like a national monument—and that’s what it officially became on Sept. 24, 1906, when Theodore Roosevelt made it the first site to get that designation. A mecca for climbers, the rock rises almost a quarter-mile above the meandering Belle Fourche River and is surrounded by pine forests, grasslands, and a bustling prairie-dog town. Read more >> http://prks.org/1D8KOBx.

[colocal]

Obama to declare Browns Canyon in Colorado a national monument | colorado.allembru.com