Chimney Rock Declared a National Monument
- Kevin Moloney for The New York TimesChimney Rock lies within the San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado.President Obama signed a proclamation on Friday designating nearly 5,000 acres of high desert at ...
- WASHINGTON, DC – Today President Obama signed a proclamation establishing Chimney Rock as a National Monument. Chimney Rock, located in the San Juan National Forest in southwestern Colorado, offers a spectacular landscape ...
- President Obama has designated a 4,726-acre Chimney Rock National Monument in the “battleground” state of Colorado, protecting a renowned landmark and cultural site of Pueblo ruins. But the Obama administration has remained ...
- Today’s designation of Chimney Rock National Monument by President Obama not only adds to our country’s conservation legacy but also serves as a perfect example of why the Antiquities Act is so ...
National Monument
- Chimney Rock, designated a national monument on Sept. 21, 2012, was home to the Ancestral Pueblo People about 1,000 years ago and is culturally significant for Native American tribes. The dramatic Great ...
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- Pueblos and native Americans from other tribes came to the site for its "lunar standstills" and built homes there more than 1,000 years ago. The new designation will help preserve it.
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- DURANGO, Colo.—Sen. Michael Bennet, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack are among those planning to attend a celebration at Chimney Rock on Friday President Barack ...
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- DURANGO.— President Barack Obama has signed a proclamation creating a national monument at the dramatic rock formation in southwestern Colorado on a site that was home to the ancestors of modern Pueblo ...
- Today, we learned that the 4,726-acre Puebloan ancestral landscape in the mountains of southwestern Colorado known as Chimney Rock will reportedly be designated a National Monument by President Obama this Friday.
- WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will designate Chimney Rock as a national monument Friday — a move that will help preserve the 4,726 acres in southwestern Colorado, administration officials told The Denver Post Wednesday.Chimney ...