With less than two weeks left in his presidency, President Joe Biden designated two new national monuments in the West.

The designation of the Chuckwalla National Monument in the southern California desert and the Sattitla Highlands National ...

The move would come just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump — who has criticized some monuments as too expansive — ...

Gorsuch signaled this year that they want to review President Obama’s expansion of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument on the ...

Tribes, federal, state and local officials, conservation groups and the public supported protecting 600,000-plus acres of fragile desert forever. Biden will do so before leaving office.

President Joe Biden announced that a monument dedicated to the women's suffrage movement would be placed on the National Mall ...

The boundary reductions also left the national park sites that surround the monuments ... of the original 1.35 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument designated by President Obama in 2016. These ...

Amid concerns that Obama overstepped his authority and limited ... Biden called Bears Ears — the first national monument to be established at the request of federally recognized tribes ...

"Today's act is going to preserve that history". A previous campaign to declare the area a national monument under President Barack Obama failed after Mr Obama backed off in the face of stiff ...

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz ... s adjoining landscapes from new uranium mining. The monument boundary is similar to the 2012 Northern Arizona withdrawal adopted by President Obama that banned new ...

As President Joe Biden leaves office, a flurry of conservation groups are convincing him to invoke the Antiquities Act to designate national monuments. The original intent of the Antiquities Act ...