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(1 of ) President Barack Obama signs a document proclaiming the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. From left are: Scott Schneider, President and CEO, Visit Mendocino County Inc.; Leslie Dahlhoff, Former Mayor, Point Arena; Michael Boots, Acting Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Neil Kornze, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management; Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.; Nancy Sutley, Former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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(3 of ) This July 18, 2013 photo shows Arch Rock, one of the jewels of the newly protected coastline in Mendocino County near the town of Point Arena, Calif. President Barack Obama is fulfilling a State of the Union pledge to preserve more federal lands by adding more California coastline to a national monument. Obama on Tuesday, March 11, 2014 signed a proclamation permanently protecting some 1,665 acres in Northern California's Mendocino County, just north of Point Arena. He says he wants to make sure the land is cherished and preserved for future generations. (AP Photo/San Francisco Chronicle, Brant Ward)
(4 of ) President Barack Obama finishes signing a document proclaiming the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. From left are: Scott Schneider, President and CEO, Visit Mendocino County Inc.; Leslie Dahlhoff, Former Mayor, Point Arena; Michael Boots, Acting Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Neil Kornze, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management; Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.; Nancy Sutley, Former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
(5 of ) President Barack Obama signs a document proclaiming the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. From left are: Scott Schneider, President and CEO, Visit Mendocino County Inc.; Leslie Dahlhoff, Former Mayor, Point Arena; Michael Boots, Acting Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Neil Kornze, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management; Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.; Nancy Sutley, Former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
(6 of ) President Barack Obama picks up a personalized pen before signing a document desiganting the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The action will permanently protect some 1,665 acres of federal lands on the Mendocino County coast in Northern California, just north of Point Arena. It will expand a national monument created in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to include coastal bluffs and shelves, tide pools, onshore sand dunes, coastal prairies, riverbanks and the mouth and estuary of the Garcia River. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
(7 of ) President Barack Obama speaks before he signs a document designating the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Pictured from left to right: Merita Whatley, Manager, Point Arena Lighthouse and member of Point Arena Merchants Association; Scott Schneider, President and CEO, Visit Mendocino County Inc.; Leslie Dahlhoff, Former Mayor, Point Arena; Michael Boots, Acting Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Neil Kornze, Principal Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management; Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.; Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif.; Nancy Sutley, Former Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality; Larry Stornetta, Rancher and former land owner of a portion of the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands; Eloisa Oropeza, Tribal Chairwoman, Manchester-Point Arena Band of Pomo Indians. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
(8 of ) President Barack Obama speaks before signing a document designating the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as part of the California Coastal National Monument, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, during a signing ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The action will permanently protect some 1,665 acres of federal lands on the Mendocino County coast in Northern California, just north of Point Arena. It will expand a national monument created in 2000 by President Bill Clinton to include coastal bluffs and shelves, tide pools, onshore sand dunes, coastal prairies, riverbanks and the mouth and estuary of the Garcia River. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
(9 of ) Dancers with Manchester Band of Pomo Indians dance group, help to dedicate the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(10 of ) U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell dedicates the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(11 of ) U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell dedicates the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(12 of ) The company setting up chairs, tables and tents gets mired in the mud during the dedication of the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(13 of ) Visitors to the dedication of the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County photograph waves hitting the headlands. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)
(14 of ) U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell dedicated the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(15 of ) U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell dedicates the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)
(16 of ) U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell dedicates the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(17 of ) Dancers with Manchester Band of Pomo Indians dance group, help to dedicate the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(18 of ) Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell arrives at a ceremony dedicating the new National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(19 of ) Attendees of a dedication of the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County take a hike before the start of the ceremony. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)
(20 of ) Mendocino County Supervisor Dan Hamburg was on hand for the dedication of the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014
(21 of ) U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell dedicates the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)
(22 of ) The Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands is officially dedicated as part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)
(23 of ) Olivia Rios of the Manchester Band of Pomo Indians dance group, helps to dedicate the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat)
(24 of ) U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell dedicates the Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands as an official part of the 1,100-mile California Coastal National Monument in Point Arena, Wednesday March 12, 2014 in Mendocino County. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2014

President Obama designates Point Arena-Stornetta Public Lands a national monument (w/video)

MARY CALLAHAN

THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | March 11, 2014

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