Colorado area safe from monument ax

WASHINGTON — Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients National Monument has been removed from a list of national monuments under review for possible elimination or reduction, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said on Friday.

The monument is the third Zinke has removed from a review of 27 national monuments ordered by President Donald Trump.

Canyons of the Ancients, which covers 178,000 acres is southwestern Colorado, is “gorgeous land,” Zinke said, adding that its American Indian archaeological sites are even more important.