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MONUMENTAL AMERICA OREGON, WASHINGTON & IDAHO
Hanford Reach National Monument • One of the largest remaining expanses of sagebrush grasslands in Washington • Habitat critical to greater sage-grouse and other sagebrush-dependent species, and threatened and endangered salmon and trout
SAGE GROUSE © CHIP CARROON
President Trump wants to rescind, resize or reduce protections for 27 of our 157 national monuments, places of cultural, historical and natural significance set aside by presidents of both parties. Here’s some of what’s at risk in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL © KATRINA KRAUSE
• The first monument designated specifically to protect biodiversity • Intact and connected habitat essential to wildlife movement, migration and resiliency and resistance to climate change and other disturbances • Diverse wildlife, including imperiled gray wolves and northern spotted owls, Siskiyou Mountains salamanders and other species not found anywhere else
GRAY WOLF © MICHAEL S. QUINTON/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Craters of the Moon National Monument • One of the few unaltered landscapes in the Snake River Plain • 121 special status species: 14 mammals— including occasional gray wolves—45 birds, two reptiles, one amphibian and nine invertebrates
DEFEND OUR MONUMENTS www.defenders.org/monuments
Hanford Reach National Monument • One of the largest remaining expanses of sagebrush grasslands in Washington • Habitat critical to greater sage-grouse and other sagebrush-dependent species, and threatened and endangered salmon and trout
SAGE GROUSE © CHIP CARROON
President Trump wants to rescind, resize or reduce protections for 27 of our 157 national monuments, places of cultural, historical and natural significance set aside by presidents of both parties. Here’s some of what’s at risk in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
NORTHERN SPOTTED OWL © KATRINA KRAUSE
• The first monument designated specifically to protect biodiversity • Intact and connected habitat essential to wildlife movement, migration and resiliency and resistance to climate change and other disturbances • Diverse wildlife, including imperiled gray wolves and northern spotted owls, Siskiyou Mountains salamanders and other species not found anywhere else
GRAY WOLF © MICHAEL S. QUINTON/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CREATIVE
Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument
Craters of the Moon National Monument • One of the few unaltered landscapes in the Snake River Plain • 121 special status species: 14 mammals— including occasional gray wolves—45 birds, two reptiles, one amphibian and nine invertebrates
DEFEND OUR MONUMENTS www.defenders.org/monuments
