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MONUMENTAL AMERICA

President Trump wants Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument to rescind, resize or • One of the largest wintering populations of bald eagles in reduce protections for Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument the state 27 of our 157 national (Most of monument is in Oregon) • Nearly half of California’s 108 species of dragonflies and monuments, places of damselflies, 80 species of butterflies, six rare insect and 16 cultural, historical and reptile and amphibian species natural significance • Key migration corridor for neotropical birds set aside by presidents of both parties. Here’s Mojave Trails National some of what’s at risk Monument in California: • Vital wildlife corridors • Protected and endangered birds, including golden eagles DESERT TORTOISE © NATE RATHBUN NATE © TORTOISE DESERT and least Bell’s vireos Giant Sequoia National Monument • Critical habitat for threatened • Rare plant species desert tortoises • Some of the world’s oldest trees, • Crucial habitat for desert including 50 percent of all giant sequoias bighorn sheep, endemic • Key habitat for vulnerable California spotted owls Mojave fringe-toed lizards and and Pacific fishers Townsend’s big-eared bats Carrizo National Monument • Imperiled and rare wildlife, including San Joaquin kit foxes, giant kangaroo rats, San Joaquin antelope squirrels, California condors, blunt-nosed leopard lizards, longhorn fairy shrimp and vernal pool fairy shrimp • Winter habitat for lesser sandhill cranes, mountain plovers and long-billed curlews

San Gabriel Mountains National Monument • Endangered California condors and least Bells’ vireos and other to Snow National Monument sensitive species, including • 12 threatened and endangered wildlife species,

SAN JOAQUIN KIT FOXES © RICK DEREVAN RICK © JOAQUIN FOXES SAN KIT desert bighorn sheep and including peninsular bighorn sheep and California spotted owls mountain yellow-legged frogs MAP SOURCES: USFWS, U.S. CENSUS BUREAU, MPA ATLAS, USDOI, ESRI, DELORME, NOAANGDC DELORME, ESRI, ATLAS, USDOI, CENSUS BUREAU, USFWS, MPA MAP SOURCES: U.S. • Mediterranean ecosystem found • More than 240 species of birds, including 32 in only 3 percent of the world migrants of conservation concern

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