Over 730,000 people visit Colorado National Monument each year. It was established in 1911 under the Antiquities Act. Gordon Leggett, CC BY-SA America’s public lands, from its majestic national parks ...

MARANA — On a warm Saturday morning, more than 100 protesters gathered near Waterman Peak in the Ironwood Forest National Monument to voice their support for public lands protections. At the same time ...

The 1906 Antiquities Act gave presidents the power to protect objects on public lands. A Justice Dept. memo said the Act also ”carries with it the power to revoke.” A legal official at the Department ...

President Donald Trump’s administration appears poised to rescind some of the national monuments created by past presidents. The U.S. Department of Justice released a legal opinion on Tuesday, June 10 ...

President Joe Biden established two more national monuments in California Tuesday, protecting about 844,000 acres of ecologically diverse deserts and forests seen as important to Indigenous people.

WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending that four large national monuments in the West be reduced in size, potentially opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of land revered for ...

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Ecologists have a practice called long-term ecological monitoring: returning to the same patch of ground again and again, season after season, until the ordinary reveals its patterns and shifts. For ...

President Obama designated five new national monuments last week. April 1, 2013— -- intro: President Obama designated five new national monuments last week, one each in Delaware, Maryland., New ...

A number of Western states have vulnerable wildlife that would be threatened by possible land protection rollbacks, according to the conservation group the Wilderness Society. Newsweek has contacted ...

America’s public lands, from its majestic national parks to its vast national forests, are at the heart of the country’s identity. They cover more than a quarter of the nation and large parts of the ...

President Donald Trump has the power to abolish two national monuments in California established by his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, as well as any others created by past presidents, according to ...