Bush Creates Largest Marine Sanctuary; President Names Islands a National Monument

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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush created a vast new marine sanctuary on Thursday, extending stronger federal protections to the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the surrounding waters with their endangered monk seals, nesting green sea turtles and other rare species.

The nation's newest national monument covers an archipelago 1,400 miles long and 100 miles wide in the Pacific Ocean. It's home to more than 7,000 species, at least one-fourth of them found nowhere else.

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Bush Creates Largest Marine Sanctuary; President Names Islands a National Monument

"To put this area in context, this national monument is more than 100 times larger than Yosemite National Park," Bush said. "It's larger than 46 of our 50 states, and more than seven times larger than all our national marine sanctuaries ...

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