Mr Putin told ministers they should donate a month's salary to help build the monument planned for Moscow.
Three government ministers have criticised the monument plan, but stopped short of calling for it to be scrapped.
Zimmerman's discovery comes a few months after the release of a poll by the Grand Canyon Trust that found 80% of Arizona voters are in favor of the Grand Canyon national monument plan.
Zimmerman discovered that a donor from the Koch brothers' funding network was funneling money into the Prosper Foundation, so the group could continue its on-the-ground campaign to block the Grand Canyon national monument plan.
Plan Your Whole Summer - Plan field trips (such as a visit to the local zoo or national monument), plan to go camping for three days, plan to go hiking along trails in your community, write it all down and schedule it in your notebook.
Both have firmly resisted World Monuments' plans for Angkor Wat's bas-reliefs.
It directs the agency's bureaus to come up with a plan to open up access on land they manage and "amend national monument management plans to ensure the public's right to hunt, fish and target shoot".
It notified the state's Capitol Preservation Commission that it wants to donate a monument and plans to submit one of several possible designs this month, said Lucien Greaves, a spokesman for the temple.
The society began to move ahead with a new monument, and plans approved by the Selma Historic Development Commission call for it to be 12 feet high, illuminated by L.E.D. lights, surrounded by a wrought-iron fence and protected by 24-hour security cameras.
Representative Mike Ritze, whose voicemail ends with "Have a great day in the Lord!" told VICE that he has already raised the money to rebuild the Commandments monument and plans to have it reinstalled at an undisclosed date.
