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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2001

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to overturn six national monuments declared in the final months of the Clinton administration.

After a brief hearing, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman said former President Bill Clinton was within his power to declare the Cascades-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon, the Hanford Reach, the Canyons of the Ancients in Colorado and the Grand Canyon-Parashant, Ironwood Forest and Sonoran Desert national monuments in Arizona.

The lawsuit was brought by the Mountain States Legal Foundation, a Colorado group for which Secretary of Interior Gale Norton used to work. The group has regularly challenged special use of national monuments and parks by Native Americans.

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Judge dismisses challenge to six new monuments (AP 11/16)