Sentences with phrase «first national monument»

The four other new national monuments are the San Juan Islands in Washington State, the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Maryland, the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Ohio, and the Delaware Heritage Trail, which is the first national monument in that state.

The United States» first national monument to military working dogs was dedicated at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio on Monday.

October 28, 2013 To celebrate military dogs and their service to our country, Maddie's Fund helped finance the design and construction of the country's first national monument to honor military working dogs.

May 30, 2016 • President Obama may use his executive authority to declare the site of the Stonewall riots in New York City as the first national monument dedicated to the struggle for LGBT rights.

Dozens of people testified at Public School 41 in the West Village last night in support of a proposal to create the first national monument to the gay rights movement, anchored by the Stonewall Inn and neighboring Christopher Park.

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A stretch of ocean off the coast of Cape Cod more than four times the size of Rhode Island has become the first U.S. marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean.

Two stretches of ocean about 210 kilometers southeast of Cape Cod have become the Atlantic Ocean's first U.S. marine national monument.

In 1972, the garden was designated a natural monument, a first for a national university botanical garden.

June 12, 2017 • Whether the new monument, considered sacred to Native Americans, should be abolished or reduced is the first part of a review of national monuments under an executive order by President Trump.

On January 9, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared the woods America's 10th National Monument — and the first monument created from land donated by a private individual.

These include Anglo - Boer War graves, Blue Mine, It was Springbok's original copper mine and the first commercial mine in South Africa, Dutch Reformed Church (or Klipkerk) which is a national monument, built in 1921.

Some 35 years after her grandfather's exploration of the Blue Hole, Alexandra Cousteau, who works closely with Oceana as a senior advisor, visited Belize for the first time and was thrilled to observe that in those years, this national living monument seemed to have changed very little from what she had seen in «The Sunken Caves» documentary.

«Organizations suing to eliminate the first national marine monument in the Atlantic Ocean have gotten the OK to proceed with a suit designed to reopen the area to commercial fishing, which environmentalists fear could jeopardize preservation efforts.»

In fact, these new national monuments matter a lot right now because the current crop of legislators in congress aren't setting any new land aside for national parks for the first time in six decades.

The monuments created by Obama are: the Río Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico; First State National Monument in Delaware; Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument in Maryland; Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Ohio; and San Juan Islands National Monument in Washington State.

In 1948, he won the first prize in Jefferson national monument competition.