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bigtree

(86,016 posts) Wed May 21, 2014, 05:47 PM May 2014

President Obama just signed the proclamation creating Organ Mountains-Desert Peak National Monument! [View all]

President Barack Obama signing a proclamation designating the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks area a national monument.

US Dept of Interior ?@Interior 40m
President Obama just signed the proclamation creating Organ Mountains-Desert Peak National Monument!

http://t.co/80zxyKcD0A

“They’re home to many of God’s smaller creatures as well. Deer and antelope roam. Falcons, mountain lions, there are even plant species that don’t grow anywhere else in the world,” Obama said.

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Organ Mountains ?@OrganMountains
Ancient #petroglyphs from a people long gone. #OMDP4NM pic.twitter.com/rPpRxlBVtI

WH: President Obama Designates Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument

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President Obama just signed the proclamation creating Organ Mountains-Desert Peak National Monument! [View all] bigtree May 2014 OP

Republicans head exploding in 3...2... nt okaawhatever May 2014 #1

Nice pics of the Largest National Monument Preserved so far! Cha May 2014 #2

Beautiful place - and good news! hatrack May 2014 #3

Liberals see beauty in these landscapes, cons see profit by dominion over this tiny slice of Fred Sanders May 2014 #4

Thank you for the beautiful pictures .... chillfactor May 2014 #5

TR's doing a fist-pump in the great beyond... Cooley Hurd May 2014 #6

I'm sorry, but any Rethug can lick my greasy asshole. AngryAmish May 2014 #9

Read up on TR... Cooley Hurd May 2014 #14

Reminds me of when President Bartlet named a national monument in order Aristus May 2014 #7

I'm going to have to celebrate this HubertHeaver May 2014 #8

Oh, I am SO ready to go back to New Mexico! hatrack May 2014 #10

+1 Same here. Big time. n/t Beartracks May 2014 #13

Magical area! Have visited it many times. When you go be sure to check out Old FailureToCommunicate May 2014 #11

What - Billy the Kid got signed here, too?? Beartracks May 2014 #15

Signed, sealed, and delivered... FailureToCommunicate May 2014 #16

Fantastic! More of this! nt babylonsister May 2014 #12