President Obama just signed the proclamation creating Organ Mountains-Desert Peak National Monument!

[bigtree]

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

[okaawhatever]

1. Republicans head exploding in 3...2... nt

[Cha]

2. Nice pics of the Largest National Monument Preserved so far!

President Obama Is Set To Create His Largest National Monument So Far

thinkprogress

From ProSense's link..

"Organ Mountains - Desert Peaks is the eleventh national monument designated by President Obama under the Antiquities Act and, in every instance, his administration has bent over backward to get input from nearby communities and to select places that are rich in both cultural and natural heritage. In other words, the Antiquities Act is being used exactly as intended".

ProSense http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4982391

Mahalo bigtree~

[hatrack]

3. Beautiful place - and good news!

Thanks for the post!

[Fred Sanders]

4. Liberals see beauty in these landscapes, cons see profit by dominion over this tiny slice of

time on the planet, and an opportunity to pillage that which their God apparently created for them to rape.

Such cons, it seems to me, are driven to this insanity by religious and corporate charlatans and grafters preying upon their engrained fears, hates and general lack of insight, the large swath of useful idiots proving themselves to be exactly that.

[chillfactor]

5. Thank you for the beautiful pictures ....

I live in New Mexico and I am thrilled to see this beautiful landscape being preserved!!!

[Cooley Hurd]

6. TR's doing a fist-pump in the great beyond...

[AngryAmish]

9. I'm sorry, but any Rethug can lick my greasy asshole.

[Cooley Hurd]

14. Read up on TR...

[Aristus]

7. Reminds me of when President Bartlet named a national monument in order

to prevent corporate development on an episode of The West Wing.

[HubertHeaver]

8. I'm going to have to celebrate this

with a hike. And photographs, lots of photographs.

[hatrack]

10. Oh, I am SO ready to go back to New Mexico!

[Beartracks]

13. +1 Same here. Big time. n/t

[FailureToCommunicate]

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

Mesilla just outside of Las Cruces, NM.
Remember the "Gadsden Purchase" from history class? It was signed here. And Billy the Kid? yup, here too.

http://www.las-cruces.org/code/history_exhibit/index.html

[Beartracks]

15. What - Billy the Kid got signed here, too??

Just jokin' around.

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[FailureToCommunicate]

16. Signed, sealed, and delivered...

to justice.

[babylonsister]

12. Fantastic! More of this! nt