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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 433380" data-attributes="member: 605"><p><h3><span style="font-size: 15px">The wilderness society likes creating national monuments. They shouldn't be very far away. </span></h3><h3></h3><h3>Advocates push for President Biden to designate the Maah Daah Hey as a National Monument</h3><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]72069[/ATTACH]</p><p>BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) - A group of North Dakotans is asking President Biden to designate the Maah Daah Hey as a <strong>National Monument before Jan. 20, 2025</strong>, using the Antiques Act.</p><p></p><p><strong>Badlands Conservation Alliance</strong> Executive Director Shannon Straight said the designation would recognize, preserve and protect the ancestral land of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara people of North Dakota. It would also preserve and protect more than 139,000 acres on 11 parcels of land managed right now by the U.S. Forest Service.</p><p></p><p></p><p>“We want to be clear at the onset today, this is not a proposal about a land grab, we think of this more as re-designating the Badlands landscape,” said Straight.</p><p></p><p>Straight said another area this will preserve and protect if designated is the dwindling grasslands of western North Dakota, used by ranchers who graze their cattle there. He said the monument would also protect vital habitats and preserve the rugged landscape for those who recreate in the badlands.</p></blockquote><p></p>