In 2006 President George W. Bush made this, but it only covered 140,000 square miles of ocean around the uninhabited northwestern islands of Hawaii. Now in August 2016, President Obama quadrupled the size of a national marine monument 583,000 square miles by northwestern Hawaii.
A top House Republican urged President-elect Donald Trump to rescind the Obama administration’s decisions to put millions of acres of land and ocean under stricter federal control by turning them into National Monuments. This is concerning, because if Trump says he will rescind the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument, and all the others then there will not be as free/wild. People will just build a mansion or something and boom, there goes the wild nature.
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