The president will use the power granted to the executive branch by the 1906 Antiquities Act.
A view of the Big Tujunga Reservoir, in a proposed expansion area of the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument in the Angeles National Forest, on April 16, 2024 near La Cañada Flintridge. The Biden administration is planning the expansion of two National Monuments in California – the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument and the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument – both of which were designated by President Barack Obama.
The White House announced funding for an unknown number of additional field rangers, interpretive rangers and positions to help with visitors. Also, $2.3 million in Great American Outdoors Act funding will be invested in the monument to rehabilitate barracks and provide housing for recreation and other Angeles National Forest staff, the White House said., more than Yosemite and Yellowstone national parks.
The monument before the expansion includes 342,177 acres of the Angeles National Forest and 4,002 acres of the neighboring San Bernardino National Forest. The addition also takes in lands owned and managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The road leading to Chantry Flat is closed. This area would be added to the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument. Also included in the expansion is the site of Thaddeus Lowe’s funicular, the Mount Lowe Railway, which from 1893 to 1938 took people on a roller-coaster of a ride high into the mountains above Pasadena. The monument protects giant wheels used to hoist the railway onto the tracks, left on the side of the trail near Echo Mountain for decades.
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