A visit to Southern Nevada’s Avi Kwa Ame National Monument starts with a drive past wonders that could easily go undetected in a harsh, inhospitable landscape. An unremarkable desert expanse of ...

It took nearly 25 years to protect the 500,000 acres of land in Southern Nevada known as Avi Kwa Ame with a national monument designation. Taylor Patterson hopes the next project, a proposed ...

“To revoke the national monument status of Avi Kwa Ame would be to spit in the face of the Nevadans, who widely supported the designation,” Mandi Elliott, executive director of the Nevada ...

Nevada is home to four national monuments—Tule Springs Fossil Beds, in the northwest corner of the Las Vegas Valley; Avi Kwa Ame, surrounding Searchlight; Gold Butte, northeast of Lake Mead; and ...

He added two more national monuments in California this week, Chuckwalla National Monument ... Nevada and the West.” She pointed to the wide support from community members that Avi Kwa Ame ...

The Avi Kwa Ame National Monument will also be the largest single ... the Sloan Canyon recreation area in Nevada, and the Lake Mead national recreation areas in Arizona. The cohesion is good ...

National monuments, including Nevada’s own Gold Butte and Avi Kwa Ame, are under attack ... to increase the number of national monument designations across the country, including in Nevada ...