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On Friday President Barack Obama moved to set aside Berryessa Snow Mountain as a national monument. The decision will preserve a wilderness area of more than 330,000 acres covering parts of Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Yolo, Glenn and Colusa Counties.
President Obama announced that he will protect a huge swath of land stretching 100 miles from the shores of Lake Berryessa to the flanks of Snow Mountain, a longtime dream of local residents and North Bay politicians.
More than a million acres of wilderness will be protected as part of three new national monuments that President Barack Obama is creating in California
President Obama used his own authority on Friday to make it official: A vast and varied expanse stretching from just northeast of Napa, into Mendocino County, will become the Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument.
President Barack Obama is expected to announce Friday that he has created a "Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument" that includes parts of eastern Napa County.
The White House revealed Obama's intentions on Thursday in a press release embargoed until early Friday morning Eastern time. The release called the area "a biodiversity hot spot."
President Barack Obama is designating the Berryessa Snow Mountain area as a national monument, permanently protecting the rolling mountainous region that runs through Napa, Lake, Mendocino, Solano and Yolo counties.
Democrats are renewing efforts to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill after a string of recent mass shootings.
Relatives and friends of the victims of last month's shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church traveled to Washington on Wednesday to demand that US lawmakers vote on legislation to expand background checks on gun sales.
Since the shooting in Charleston, S.C. that killed nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal, Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) said America has for some reason become focused on the symbol of the Confederate battle flag.
Family members of the nine people killed in last month's shooting in a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, traveled to the nation's capital Wednesday to turn their grief into action.