At issue is whether a president should be allowed to protect wide swaths of land from development without public input. It's usually Congress that designates the protection of public lands by passing a law, but sixteen presidents of both parties have used authority granted to them by the 1906 Antiquities Act to set aside prized areas. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush left office touting the millions of acres they set aside from development.
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