02/15/2016
President Barack Obama has designated three new national monuments -- all of them in the California desert -- through the Antiquities Act. The National Park Service will administer one of them, Castle Mountains National
Monument[1] (MN82), making it eligible to become the newest new National Parks on the Air (NPOTA[2]) unit. The nearly 21,000 acre tract became the 484th NPOTA unit as of February 12.
Castle Mountains National Monument is surrounded on three sides by another NPOTA unit - the Mojave National Preserve (PV13).
"It connects water flow and wildlife corridors of the Preserve, and completes the boundary of the Preserve along the California-Nevada border," the White House said[3]. The other national monuments created were Sand to Snow National Monument, and Mojave Trails National Monument. The three new national monuments comprise approximately 1.8 million acres.
[1]
http://www.nps.gov/camo/index.htm
[2]
https://npota.arrl.org/
[3]
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/02/12/presidential-proclamation-establishment-castle-mountains-national
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