[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3504]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              {time}  1900
                         PRESERVE CASTNER RANGE

  (Mr. O'ROURKE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. O'ROURKE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to ask for the support and 
help of my colleagues to preserve a very special place in my community 
known as Castner Range.
  Castner Range is 7,000 acres in the Chihuahuan Desert wilderness, 
where you have unique flora and fauna and human history dating back to 
10,000 years before our time. These 7,000 acres are a jewel to our 
binational region of 3 million people and a treasure to the United 
States.
  For that reason, I ask Congress to join my community in its 
grassroots efforts to preserve Castner Range as a national monument so 
that this generation and those that follow can enjoy this national 
treasure in perpetuity.

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