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3. I truly hate those people
Fri Nov 25, 2016, 09:22 AM
Nov 2016
http://downeast.com/new-maine-national-monument/

On August 24, one day ahead of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, President Obama designated Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, an 87,500-acre parcel of mountains, rivers, and forests abutting the eastern edge of Baxter State Park. The land was donated by Burt’s Bees founder Roxanne Quimby, who has advocated for years to establish the site as a national park. President Obama’s executive action, allowed under the Antiquities Act, adds the unit to the National Park Service as a national monument, bypassing the need for Congress to authorize a new national park.

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President Obama has saved and protected more natural areas then any President in history because it
was the right thing to do and I might not ever get to Katahdin Woods in Maine but we are all better having that
area preserved.

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