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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

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U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 40, Part 2, pp. 1760-61 and map following p. 1760. "By the President of the United States of America. A Proclamation."

Wilson, Woodrow

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : District of Columbia : Washington Government Printing Office 1918 03 18

SUMMARY
Establishes the Zion National Monument, Utah, on the grounds that it contains "craters of extinct volcanoes, fossiliferous deposits of unusual nature, and brilliantly colored strata of unique composition, among which are some believed to be the best representatives in the world of a rare type of sedimentation... [and] a labyrinth of remarkable canyons with highly ornate and beautifully colored walls, in which are plainly recorded the geologic events of past ages," as well as notable archeological features; the new monument will also incorporate the existing Mukuntuweap National Monument.

NOTES
Another example of the connection between cultural conservation and the conservation of natural resources.

This national monument became Zion National Park by an Act of Congress of November 19, 1919 (41 Stat. 356).

Mukuntuweap National Monument had been established by a Presidential proclamation of July 31, 1909 (36 Stat. 2498).

Published 1919.

SUBJECTS
Presidential proclamation
National monuments
Landscape protection

MEDIUM
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CALL NUMBER
KF 50 .U5

PART OF
United States Statutes at Large

DIGITAL ID
amrvl vl479

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