Over 87,500 acres of land in Maine's North Woods has been made a U.S. national monument by President Obama. Elliotsville Plantation Inc., a nonprofit foundation, donated the land to the federal government. For years the foundation and others have tried to have a national park in the North Woods, but there was not enough support in Congress to create a park. However, Obama has the power to designate national monuments so he designated Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument. The monument will protect the geology, significant biodiversity, and abundant wildlife. National parks and national monuments are of huge importance to the world. National parks protect land, animals, and ecosystems that would be otherwise destroyed for profit. The parks and monuments preserve what the land would have been like all around the area it occupies if humans had not interfered and cut down forest so that we would benefit. The parks and monuments also protect species that would be otherwise extinct if there were not regulations to protect them. Natural parks and monuments remind us of the beauty of nature and why we should protect the land and the animals living on it. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/katahdin-woods-waters-national-monument-maine/
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