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Posted: Thursday, March 1st, 2007 5:14 AM HST
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Mrs. Bush takes first trip to Hawaii marine monument
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HONOLULU (AP) _ First lady Laura Bush will be on Midway Atoll today to make her first visit to the massive marine monument created by her husband last spring.
She'll be in Honolulu tomorrow to participate in a ceremony to give the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument a Hawaiian name. It won't be revealed until then.
The biologically rich region teems with 14 (m) million nesting seabirds and about seven-thousand species of birds, fish and marine mammals. A quarter of them are unique to Hawaii.
President Bush's proclamation in June created the nation's 75th national monument. It's the largest no-take marine sanctuary in the world including nearly 140-thousand square miles of islands, atolls, reefs and ocean waters.
(Copyright 2007 Associated Press. All rights reserved)
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