1.   As a result of the bulldozing controversy, the city designated land for a new rookery and created the Wildlife and Environmental Advisory Committee.

2.   Clinton could designate the land as a national monument by invoking the same federal law that granted protection to the Grand Canyon.

3.   The environmental advocates have been pressuring the federal government and some states to designate more land off limits to the bikers.

4.   The land is designated specifically for repatriation of remains, and is not for new burials.

5.   Designating the land relates only to use, and does not affect ownership.

6.   Lawyers for the three farmers argued the law violated their rights because designating the land for seizure prohibited them from selling it or making improvements.

7.   The farmers take issue with a procedure under which their land is designated for taking, but is not purchased until a later date.

8.   Once land is designated, the owner cannot lease, sell, subdivide or make permanent developments on the property without permission of the minister of lands.