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Browns Canyon Declared a National Monument Employing the Antiquities Act, President Obama named Browns Canyon a national monument on Feb. 19. The designation provides new layers of federal protection to the nearly 21,000 acres east of the Arkansas River in Chaffee County. Legislative attempts to preserve the area failed to advance through Congress, and Obama was urged by U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Gov. John Hickenlooper to use the Antiquities Act for the designation. The Act allows the president to set aside federal lands for protection without congressional approval. U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn was predictably “outraged” by the president’s action ...

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