...enactment on June 8, 1906 of the American Antiquities Act, which authorized the President to declare historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures,...and other objects of historic or scientific interest in the public lands to be national monuments. The first such designation. Devils Tower in Wyoming,...

...of ruins and archaeological sites, historic or prehistoric ruins or monuments, objects of antiquity, historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures,...other objects of historic or scientific interest. § 3.14 Examinations by field officer. The field officer in charge may at all times examine the permit...

...United States Is authorised. In his discretion, to declare by public proclamation historic TfiTy^m*"**. historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects...owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments. and may reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which...

...hUtoric landmarks. hi» toric and prehistoric structures. and other object* of hi«tortc or .dentil Ic Interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments. and may reserre as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which...

...monuments were established. Under the Antiquities Act of 1906, the president could "declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric...other objects of historic or scientific interest" on the public lands. ' ' Though the act was intended primarily to protect Indian archaeological sites...

...federal land management responsibilities. ...to declare by public proclamation [as national monuments] historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures,...other objects of historic or scientific interest... In 1916 Congress created the National Park Service in the Department of the Interior to ...promote...

...Act, 34 Stat 225, 16 USC § 431 . . . which authorizes the President to declare as national monuments "objects of historic or scientific interest that are...owned or controlled by the Government of the United States...." The 1952 Proclamation notes that Death Valley was set aside as a national monument "for...

...Commission to declare by public proclamation, historic and prehistoric structures and other objects of scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the State of New Mexico, to be State monuments, and may reserve as a part thereof such parcels of land...

...of ruins and archeological sites, historic or ^prehistoric ruins or monuments, objects of antiquity, historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures,...other objects of historic or scientific interest. 14. The field officer in charge may at all times examine the permit of any person or institution claiming...

...status for some public lands by allowing the president, without congressional approval, to set aside "historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures...other objects of historic or scientific interest" as national monuments. Teddy Roosevelt had aroused a good deal of controversy when he used the act...