Reuters: President Barack Obama is due to announce on Monday that he will designate five locations around the country as national monuments to protect large tracts of land and historical sites, a White House official said.
The locations range from a 240,000-acre (97,125-hectare) expanse in New Mexico’s high desert to the town green in Dover, Delaware, part of a nod to that state’s role in the founding of the republic. A national monument is similar to a national park but can be designated directly by the…

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