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Denali seen from Byers Lake the morning after the rename. On August 30, 2015, Sally Jewell announced that the mountain would be renamed Denali, under authority of federal law which permits her as Secretary of the Interior to name geographic features if the Board on Geographic Names does not act within a "reasonable" period of time. In media ...
Denali is a granitic pluton, mostly pink quartz monzonite, lifted by tectonic pressure from the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate; at the same time, the sedimentary material above and around the mountain was stripped away by erosion.
On February 7, 2025, the Alaska State Legislature passed a joint resolution urging the federal government to retain Denali as the mountain's official name. The Alaska State Senate voted unanimously in favor of the resolution. [24] [25] An online poll by Alaska Public Media found that, among 600 respondents, about 95% preferred Denali over Mount ...
President Trump vowed Monday to revert the name of Alaska's 20,310-foot Denali, the tallest peak in North America, to Mt. McKinley, reigniting a long-running dispute. "We will restore the name of ...
Centuries ago, Alaska's native Koyukon people settled on the name "Denali" for the tallest mountain in North America.. Then, in 1896, a random European-American gold prospector decided to name it ...
(The Center Square) – Of the many executive orders and proclamations President Donald Trump signed on Monday, one renames two geographical locations, Mount McKinley and Gulf of America. In an ...
The Denali Wilderness is a wilderness area within Denali National Park that protects the higher elevations of the central Alaska Range, including Denali. The wilderness comprises about one-third of the current national park and preserve—2,146,580 acres (3,354 sq mi; 8,687 km 2 ) that correspond with the former park boundaries before 1980.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S ...