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Redfairen

(1,276 posts) Thu Jan 10, 2013, 07:15 PM Jan 2013

Obama signs bill designating California’s Pinnacles National Monument a national park [View all]

Source: Washington Post

Pinnacles National Monument, a 40 square-mile site that includes caves and towering volcanic rock formations popular with climbers, became the country’s 59th national park on Thursday.

President Barack Obama signed the bill creating the park.

The new park holds cultural significance for several Native American tribes and is also home to the endangered California condor.

A condor re-establishment program has been in place at Pinnacles since 2003. Every fall, captive-bred condors are released into the wild.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/obama-signs-bill-designating-californias-pinnacles-national-monument-a-national-park/2013/01/10/f8c63526-5b6e-11e2-b8b2-0d18a64c8dfa_story.html

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Obama signs bill designating California’s Pinnacles National Monument a national park [View all] Redfairen Jan 2013 OP

Does anyone in California know where this is? Central California lob1 Jan 2013 #1

I have been to the Pinnacles.. samrock Jan 2013 #2

Thank you. lob1 Jan 2013 #4

It's close to Hollister ... Wernothelpless Jan 2013 #18

here CreekDog Jan 2013 #3

Thanks for the map. I appreciate it. lob1 Jan 2013 #5

Near Salinas. stubtoe Jan 2013 #13

Thank you, all who worked for this! Cha Jan 2013 #6

Maybe this was a little gift for CA... ReRe Jan 2013 #7

there are other changes like this CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #9

No comprende ReRe Jan 2013 #21

Now the Pinnacles is Federal land right? CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #24

Oh... I see ReRe Jan 2013 #26

read the article again waddirum Jan 2013 #31

right after my daughter died barbtries Jan 2013 #8

Barbtries JohnnyLib2 Jan 2013 #10

thanks JohnnyLib2! barbtries Jan 2013 #14

Great news! That place is awesome. stubtoe Jan 2013 #11

Yeah. pinto Jan 2013 #12

An excellent place. bayareaboy Jan 2013 #15

That's funny. I spent one the coldest nights of my life there as a boy scout. Gregorian Jan 2013 #27

Then perhaps you remembered the ... bayareaboy Jan 2013 #29

Pinnacles NP is east of Soledad in Monterey County, California Piedras Jan 2013 #16

For the Condor, for the Tribes,for us! sheshe2 Jan 2013 #17

Excellent news! K&R n/t janx Jan 2013 #19

It was already a National Monument liberal N proud Jan 2013 #20

Now better protected from fracking? Piedras Jan 2013 #22

I have been to Pinnacles. OnyxCollie Jan 2013 #23

Knowing Republicans, they'll complain about the cost of the signs.... Spitfire of ATJ Jan 2013 #25

I have actually been there. jonthebru Jan 2013 #28

If it is too hot in the Summer bayareaboy Jan 2013 #30