11.   But Babbitt said the bill creating the monument fails to address water issues and unnecessarily freezes current management practices for three years.

12.   Clinton has created three monuments on his own this year -- in Arizona and California.

13.   Creating a monument allows the president to ban logging and mining, restrict off-road vehicle use and grazing, and bring added prominence to the areas.

14.   Many fear that creating monument after monument could harm the Western economy by removing land from commercial uses like grazing, logging and mining.

15.   The Colorado monument already has some oil production that the Clinton administration agreed to allow when the monument was created by executive order in January.