Obama moves to protect more California coast In Mendocino, Humboldt, Santa Cruz counties

Caleb Pershan, SFIST
Among the final acts of a presidency in which conservation was a “cornerstone,” the commander-in-chief has designated more than 6,000 acres of coastal areas to join the California Coastal National Monument, the White House announced. The monument, which the LA Times explains runs along the coast of the Golden State and extends 12 miles out to sea.
As the LA Times wrote previously, Obama’s move on the matter was requested by California politicians like Senator Barbara Boxer, and it wasn’t clear how he’d act. But now, as the Chronicle and others point out, Obama has done right by them, and likely by history, having opted in the aggregate to protect an acreage of public land that totals more than 550 million, twice the acreage protected by Teddy Roosevelt.
The California Coastal National Monument was originally designated by Bill Clinton and first expanded by Obama in 2014, when he added Point-Arena-Stornetta in Mendocino County to the monument. As the Bureau of Land management writes, the new sites include Trinidad Head off the coast of Humboldt County with its historic lighthouse, Waluplh-Lighthouse Ranch, just south of Trinidad Head, the Lost Coast Headlands, Cotoni-Coast Dairies in Santa Cruz County, the largest area designated among the bunch and which includes ancient archaeological sites, meadows, and coast redwoods, and Piedras Blancas in San Luis Obispo County, which has its own historic lighthouse and views of elephant seals among white coastal rocks.
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