On April 15, President Clinton officially designated 328,000 acres in California as a national monument to protect sequoias.

The bill would designate about 7.5 million acres as wilderness and expand two national parks.

Belize has designated 100,000 acres of rainforest, nearly two per cent of its total land area, for the protection of the jaguar.

In 1907, Roosevelt designated 16 million acres (65,000 km2) of new national forests just minutes before a deadline.

In 1980 Congress designated 5.4 million acres of the forest as wilderness.

Congress has designated roughly 106 million acres as permanent wilderness, more than half of it in Alaska.

Since 1964, Congress has designated 106 million acres as permanent wilderness, more than half of them in Alaska.

The bill creating the State Natural Area originally designated 142 acres for protection.

Designates roughly 505,000 acres of wilderness on Forest Service lands.

Designates 30,000 acres of wilderness at Roderick Mountain.