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In early February, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued Secretary's Orders 3423 and 3424, directing the BGN to update GNIS with "Gulf of America" and "Mount McKinley", respectively. [31] The BGN rejected several proposals to revert Mount McKinley back to Denali, because overriding an executive order would require Congressional intervention. [32]
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 ...
During his inaugural address, President Donald Trump vowed to change the name of Denali in Alaska back to Mount McKinley. "A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf ...
The 20,000-foot peak in Denali National Park and Preserve in south-central Alaska had since 1917 been known as Mount McKinley, in honor of 25th president William McKinley, who was assassinated in ...
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 ...
The Alaska Legislature passed a resolution Friday urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount ...
Naming the new, larger park Denali, while retaining the name Mount McKinley for the actual mountain was thought to be a compromise by many "Mount McKinley" partisans. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] However, "Denali" advocates, including Alaska Congressman Don Young , rejected the position that the 1980 action constituted a real compromise, and instead argued ...
Donald Trump ordered the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Mount Denali in his first hours as the 47th president Monday night.. The Gulf of Mexico was rechristened the Gulf of America ...