Rep. Mark Amodei announced plans for legislation that would require congressional approval of all future national monuments ...
A federal bill filed on Thursday takes aim at the president’s longstanding authority to designate national monuments. The ...
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 ...
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 ...
In Nevada, Lake Mead National Recreation Area produced $358 million, far more than Great Basin National Park ($21.8 million) or Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument ($5.5 million).
A new bill proposed by lawmakers from Utah and Nevada want to remove the president's ability to make or expand national ...
For less than a year, the desert landscape and sacred mountains of Avi Kwa Ame have been spared from the sprawl of developers ...
Roosevelt used the broad powers of the Antiquities Act eighteen times to increase protections for places like the Arizona's Grand Canyon and Washington's Olympic Peninsula. Since then, U.S. Presidents ...
In the west, Biden established the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument under the federal Antiquities Act in 2023. The 500,000-acre monument northwest of Laughlin, Nevada, encompasses Spirit Mountain ...
On March 21, 2023, President Joe Biden designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada. Located at the confluence of the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts, the national monument protects ...