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.

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