Richard Egan was an American actor. In some films he is credited as Richard Eagan.
National monuments can be so designated through the power of the Antiquities Act of 1906. President Theodore Roosevelt used the act to declare Devils Tower in Wyoming as the first national monument.ational monuments can be managed by one of several federal agencies: the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, or the Bureau of Land Management.
It left the definition of the smallest area compatible to President Roosevelt and granted him the power to establish monuments by executive decree. That was enough for Roosevelt to issue Presidential Proclamation 794 on January 11, 1908, establishing the Grand Canyon National Monument, in the Territory of Arizona.The order allowed for forestry protection in the monument area, and it barred settlement and the destruction of any feature of the âmonument.â. test of Rooseveltâs expanded powers came in an area deeply personal to him: the conservation of lands. After his first wifeâs death, Roosevelt spent extended time in the western part of the United States, and his love of nature was well-documented.