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The U.S. National Park Service is celebrating its centennial. On August 25th 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed The Organic Act of 1916, creating the National Park Service.

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Federal land managers have issued a special recreation permit that will allow a popular off-highway race from Las Vegas to Reno to pass through a new national monument next week with special restrictions that include a slower, no-pass zone on existing dirt roads.

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President Obama has designated a sprawling desert and mountain area in southeast Nevada as a new national monument. The Basin and Range National Monument is located about two hours from Las Vegas and is about 1,100 square miles.