Locals have mountains of questions on new monument

It’s been four days since President Barack Obama flew into Southern California to establish the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument, but federal officials are still unclear on exactly where it is. Is the Mount Baldy ski resort included within its 346,177 acres? What about Mount Baldy Village? Officials with the U.S. Forest Service, which will manage the monument, don’t know for sure. Neither does staff at the office of Rep. Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park, who pushed for the designation. The Department of the Interior referred inquiries to the folks at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, who didn’t return a phone call or email. Officials at the Angeles National Forest, where most of the monument is located, may be able to answer the question. But it will take a couple more days, spokesman Andrew Mitchell said Tuesday. “We don’t have a good detailed map ourselves. We have a generic one. We can’t say for certain the ski resort and village are excluded,” he said. Officials at the Angeles National Forest office and Pacific Southwest Region headquarters in Vallejo are using geographic information system data provided by the USDA and the Obama administration to create the map that will answer the questions once and for all. Local authorities did not have a say in the final decision, Mitchell said. The jagged eastern edge of the monument boundary wasn’t clear in a final map released last week by the White House. San Bernardino County officials asked to be excluded from the monument because they objected to the lack of local input on the proposal and its possible effect on property rights, access and economic development. Many mountain residents and business owners have objected to their inclusion in the monument because they fear new restrictions that could change the way they live and work...more

The Presidential Proclamation says:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by section 2 of the Antiquities Act, hereby proclaim the objects identified above that are situated upon lands and interests in lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument (monument) and, for the purpose of preserving those objects, reserve as a part thereof all lands and interests in lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States within the boundaries described on the accompanying map entitled, "San Gabriel Mountains National Monument" and the accompanying legal description, which are attached to and form a part of this proclamation. 

The local Forest Service spokesman says: 

Local authorities did not have a say in the final decision, Mitchell said.

The President said he had a map and accompanying legal descriptions and they were attached to the Proclamation.  If the local forest officials don't know where the boundaries are, and neither does Congress or Interior, then the logical question would be who made the map and listed the legal descriptions the President supposedly attached to the Proclamation?  Was it Forest Service HQ, the Sec. of Ag, a White House official or some outside group? And if they were attached why haven't they been given to the local Forest Service employees so they can answer questions?