Gold Butte National Monument
The Gold Butte National Monument is an American national monument in Clark County in southeastern Nevada . It was designated by President Barack Obama by a Presidential Proclamation on December 28, 2016 with an area of 296,937 acres (120,166 hectares). The National Monument includes land owned by the US government. The Lake Mead National Recreation Area is directly adjacent to the west . To the east is the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument in the state of Arizona . Even before the designation as a National Monument , large parts were designated as Wilderness Area .
management
The Gold Butte National Monument is overseen by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In 1998, Clark County bought the grazing permits for cattle in what is now the Gold Butte National Monument . No cattle grazed in the area since 1998. The development and maintenance of existing water rights and transport infrastructure is still possible, but no new installations are allowed. The area remains open for recreation, including hiking, hunting, horseback riding, camping, picnicking, sightseeing, and mineral collecting. Off-road driving and cycling is permitted on designated roads and paths.
Animal species and ghost town
Species such as bighorn sheep , puma , helmet quail and California gopher tortoise can be found in the reserve . The chukar chicken, which is naturalized in the USA, also occurs.
The National Monument also protects historic ranch and mining areas such as the ghost town of Gold Butte . Only a few traces of mining such as mine openings, cement foundations and a few rusting pieces of equipment can still be seen.
Historical sites
Archaeological sites with petroglyphs are located in the area of the protected area . In a report from August 2016, the Friends of Gold Butte had documented that more and more damage was caused by vandalism in the area . Historic cattle paddocks and fences were destroyed, Joshua trees felled, and petroglyphs shot at to reveal bullet holes.
Planned area reduction by President Trump
On April 26, 2017, President Trump, with Executive Order 13792, instructed the United States Department of the Interior to review the area of 27 National Monuments, which were designated after January 1, 1996 and are at least 100,000 hectares in size. On August 24, Home Secretary Ryan Zinke presented the final report on Executive Order 13792 . The final report called for land reductions in the Bears Ears National Monument , Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument , Gold Butte National Monument, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument , Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument , and Rose Atoll Marine National Monument . In addition, more traditional human uses such as grazing, logging, coal mining and commercial fishing are to be allowed within the protected areas in all the National Monuments examined, as presidents have gone too far in recent decades to restrict commercial activities in protected areas. This report also suggested checking whether Camp Nelson training camp to for African Americans in the American Civil War , Medgar Evers Home and Badgers Two Medicine with 130,000 acres area size in the Lewis and Clark National Forest should be designated as national monuments.
Web links
- Bureau of Land Management : Bears Ears National Monument Gold Butte National Monument (official site )
- Gold Butte National Monument photo album from the Bureau of Land Management
- Friends of Gold Butte
- BirdAndHike.com Gold Butte National Monument
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Presidential Proclamation - Establishment of the Gold Butte National Monument
- ↑ New Gold Butte National Monument preserves culture and wildlands The Wilderness Society ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Executive Order 13792 of April 26, 2017 Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
- ↑ Final Report Summarizing findings of the Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act
- ↑ Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump Washington Post, September 17, 2017
Coordinates: 36 ° 10 ′ 12 ″ N , 114 ° 7 ′ 12 ″ W.