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One is to provide recreational and learning
opportunities to the surrounding com-
munity as well as visitors. The other
is to serve as a revegetation area for
endangered and threatened plants and
animals native to the Lower Colorado
River Basin. The Lower Colorado is an
area that faces many problems, from
damming that causes changes in natu-
ral stream flow, to a variety of invasive
species. The preserve is an ongoing
project to study methods of revegeta-
tion and restoration that may be used
though out the area.
POSTON MONUMENT
This Memorial Monument marks the site
of the Poston War Relocation Center
where 17,867 persons of Japanese an-
cestry, the majority of whom were Unit-
ed States citizens were interned during
World War II from May 1942 to No-
vember 1945. All persons of Japanese
descent living on west coast farms,
businesses, towns, cities, and states
were forcibly evacuated by the United
States military on the grounds that they
posed a threat to (he national security.
This massive relocation was authorized
by Executive Order 9066, signed by
President Franklin D. Roosevelt on
February 19, 1942. This Memorial is
dedicated to all those men, women and
children who suffered countless hard-
ships and indignities at the hands of a
nation misguided by wartime hysteria,
racial prejudice and fear. May it serve as
a constant reminder of our past so that
Americans in the future will never again
be denied their Constitutional rights and
may the remembrance of that experi-
ence serve to advance the evolution of
the human spirit.
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