Presidential Document2024-22946
National Public Lands Day, 2024
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October 2, 2024
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September 27, 2024
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 191 (Wednesday, October 2, 2024)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 80359-80360]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22946]
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 191 / Wednesday, October 2, 2024 /
Presidential Documents
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Proclamation 10820 of September 27, 2024
National Public Lands Day, 2024
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
America's natural wonders are our Nation's heart and
soul. Our public lands protect many of these treasures
and ensure that generations can enjoy their splendor--
from our national parks and monuments to our forests
and wildlife refuges. On National Public Lands Day, we
honor these irreplaceable lands and waters and recommit
to working together to preserve them.
Whether it is the soaring cliffs of Yosemite National
Park, the striking geysers of Yellowstone National
Park, or the lush hills of the Appalachians in the
Monongahela National Forest--our Nation's public lands
inspire and unite us through the ages. They hold pieces
of our country's history, etched into our lands and
waters. Some public lands are considered sacred by
Tribal Nations, which have stewarded them since time
immemorial. And these lands and waters also carry so
much promise: helping protect us against climate
change, providing the clean air we breathe and clean
water we drink, and sustaining the livelihoods of
ranchers, outfitters, guides, and rural and Indigenous
communities.
Since the beginning of my Administration, I have taken
historic steps to conserve our natural treasures for
future generations. That began when I signed an
Executive Order that established the most ambitious
conservation goal in the history of our country--
committing to conserve at least 30 percent of our
Nation's lands and waters by 2030. To that end, my
``America the Beautiful'' initiative is supporting
voluntary, locally led conservation and restoration
efforts across the country. I also signed an Executive
Order to safeguard and steward our Nation's forests and
enlist nature to help address the climate crisis,
including through the development of the first National
Nature Assessment.
Since I came into office, my Administration has
conserved more than 42 million acres of our Nation's
lands and waters. I established and expanded eight
national monuments--including the stunning Avi Kwa Ame
National Monument in Nevada, thought to be one of the
most sacred places on Earth by some Tribal Nations. I
restored protections for lands and waters across the
country that had been rolled back by the previous
administration--including the desert buttes of the
Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-
Escalante National Monument, the stunning Tongass
National Forest, and the underwater canyons of the
Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National
Monument.
To protect our waters, I took executive action to
direct consideration of more than 700,000 square miles
of the Pacific Ocean southwest of Hawaii as a new
National Marine Sanctuary--which could make this one of
the largest protected marine areas on the planet. And I
protected the United States Arctic Ocean from new oil
and gas leasing. My Administration is also advancing
the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine
Sanctuary, which stretches along 116 miles of
California coastline.
My Administration has also made historic investments to
preserve our Nation's ecosystems and safeguard our
communities against the impact of climate change. Our
Inflation Reduction Act made the largest investment in
history to confront the climate crisis, and together
with our Bipartisan
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Infrastructure Law, these investments will help support
conservation and restoration, including $50 billion
dedicated to strengthening community and ecosystem
resilience to climate change. We have also worked to
promote equitable access to outdoor recreation
opportunities on public lands and waters through the
``America the Beautiful'' initiative, launching the
Federal Interagency Council on Outdoor Recreation to
address common challenges and opportunities in
expanding outdoor recreation activities and access to
the great outdoors.
I also launched the American Climate Corps to mobilize
a new, diverse generation of Americans--putting them to
work conserving and restoring our lands and waters,
bolstering community resilience, deploying clean
energy, implementing energy efficient technologies, and
advancing environmental justice. And, upon completing
this program, we are working to ensure they have a
pathway to getting high-quality, good-paying clean
energy and climate resilience jobs in the public and
private sectors.
Our Nation's public lands have always been and will
always be central to our country's heritage and
essential to our identity. On National Public Lands
Day, I encourage every American to enjoy the wonder of
our public lands. All of our country's national parks,
forests, refuges, and grasslands will have a ``Fee-Free
Day'' on September 28--anyone can visit them free of
charge. There are several more fee-free days throughout
the year, the last of which will occur on Veterans Day,
November 11. Whether you go for the incredible vistas,
the lush forests, or the rolling grasslands, our public
lands will never fail to inspire awe and connect us to
something bigger than ourselves.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, by virtue of the
authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of
the United States, do hereby proclaim September 28,
2024, as National Public Lands Day. I invite all
Americans to join me in a day of service for our public
lands. I also encourage volunteers from across the
Nation to celebrate and care for our lands and waters
by reforesting the land, maintaining trails, nurturing
ecosystems, removing invasive species, and doing other
conservation work to serve the lands and waters that
support and sustain us.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
twenty-seventh day of September, in the year of our
Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence
of the United States of America the two hundred and
forty-ninth.
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