Caldera

Idaho

Website: http://www.caldera.points-west.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CalderaNationalMonument

From the Facebook page:

"...potential designation of Island Park, Idaho area into a Caldera National Monument that would preserve the Henry's Fork Caldera and the half of the Island Park Caldera that lies outside of Yellowstone National Park. "

From the website:

Efforts to preserve Island Park date back to 1882 when General Phil Sheridan, Commander of the U.S. Army in the West, proposed to expand and conform Yellowstone’s boundaries to the seasonal migrations of elk and bison. Publisher George Bird Grinnell furthered these efforts and helped introduce a bill before Congress for an expansion of Yellowstone but powerfull railroad lobbies ensured that the bill fail. Yellowstone’s rectangular boarders where drawn only to preserve Yellowstone’s geological features and without consideration for wildlife.

Teton Park was created to the south in 1929 and Wyoming created the Teton Wilderness and the North Absaroka Wilderness adjacent to park in 1964 and the Washakie Wilderness in 1972. Montana created the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness in 1978 along the park’s northern boundary and the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in 1983. No land was preserved in Idaho. Finally, in 2007, the Bush Administration’s Secretary of the Interior and former Governor of Idaho, Dirk Kempthorne, began promoting the idea of a National Monument for Island Park.