{"id":76392,"date":"2023-03-21T18:52:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T18:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2023\/03\/21\/biden-to-designate-national-monument-at-former-army-range\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:30:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:30:40","slug":"biden-to-designate-national-monument-at-former-army-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2023\/03\/21\/biden-to-designate-national-monument-at-former-army-range\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden designates national monument at former Army range"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Joe Biden is set to establish a new national monument in Texas at what was once an Army range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president designated the Castner Range National Monument in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday at a White House summit, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2023\/03\/21\/fact-sheet-president-biden-designates-castner-range-national-monument\/\" target=\"_blank\">White House fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Located at Fort Bliss, <a href=\"https:\/\/castnerrange.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Castner Range<\/a> served as a training and testing site for the Army during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, the fact sheet noted. The site closed in 1966.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis action will protect the cultural, scientific and historic objects found within the monument\u2019s boundaries, honor our veterans, service members, and Tribal Nations, and expand access to outdoor recreation on our public lands,\u201d the fact sheet noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The beautiful Castner Range has been preserved because of Fort Bliss. A national monument designation can permanently protect the land\u2019s cultural, historical, scientific and environmental attributes. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@POTUS<\/a> the time is now to protect forever Castner Range. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3F8L4GmKzY\">pic.twitter.com\/3F8L4GmKzY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Castner Range National Monument (@CastnerRangeNM) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CastnerRangeNM\/status\/1635279561004048392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 13, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The nearly-7,000 acres of high-desert mountains will become the first national monument directly managed by the U.S. military since national battlefields were transferred to the National Park Service in the 1930s, according to the fact sheet.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a 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