At least until oil is discovered there... --- On Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:17 PM, Gruss Gott scribed: --- > > Bush to Create Largest Marine Sanctuary > > By JOHN HEILPRIN > The Associated Press > Thursday, June 15, 2006; 1:19 PM > > WASHINGTON -- President Bush is creating a vast new marine sanctuary > Thursday, extending stronger federal protections to the Northwestern > Hawaiian Islands and its endangered monk seals, nesting green sea > turtles and other rare species. > > The nation's newest national monument, which will be given a native > Hawaiian name based on suggestions from state residents, covers an > archipelago stretching 1,400 miles long and 100 miles wide in the > Pacific Ocean. It's home to more than 7,000 species, at least a fourth > of them found nowhere else. > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/15/AR2006061500370.html > >
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