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Bush designates new marine sanctuaries.(Inside Track)(George W. Bush)(Brief article)
With just two weeks left in office, President Bush designated almost 200,000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean as a national monument, using powers granted by the Antiquities Act of 1906. The new marine "monument," an area about the size of Spain, is the largest protected area of ocean ever established, breaking a previous record also set by Bush in mid-2006, when he decreed 140,000 square miles in Northwest Hawaii off-limits using the same authority.
Taken together, the new protected areas from American Samoa to the Mariana Islands to the Rose Atoll are larger than Texas. The new status of the area means it will be closed to commercial and most recreational fishing, mineral exploration, waste dumping, under-sea mining, oil ...
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