California has 19 national monuments, the most of any state in the U.S. And more than half of its monuments were proclaimed more than 90 years after the establishment of the Antiquities Act in 1906. The act was signed by President Theodore Roosevelt to protect natural, cultural and historic sites, giving presidents the authority to establish national monuments or expand existing ones by proclamation on existing federal land without approval from Congress.
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