Daily Postcard: Feb. 11, 2023, marked 107 years since Bandelier National Monument was born into existence through the auspices of the Antiquities Act of 1906. President Woodrow Wilson signed the legislation Feb. 11, 1916, to create a 22,400-acre National Monument. After over a quarter of a century of political wrangling and efforts to protect the archeological sites found on the Pajarito Plateau, finally, at least some of them had federal protection. Bandelier’s boundaries were increased in 1932, 1961, 1963, and again in 2014. The monument encompasses over 33,000 acres of mesas, canyons, mountaintops, streams, and over 70 miles of trails. Thousands of archeological sites are protected, and the story of cultural continuity from Ancestral Pueblo people to today’s Pueblos is shared with several hundred thousand visitors annually. Courtesy/BNM