Created by former President Joe Biden just days before he left office, Chuckwalla National Monument will further protect desert habitat in Southern California.

New interior secretary quietly orders millions of acres of protected lands to be reviewed for potential oil, gas, uranium and ...

All of America's national monuments must be reviewed for potential oil and gas drilling and mining reserves, critics say, per bureaucratic language tucked deep in a sweeping order issued on Monday ...

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered federal officials to review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national ...

A Siskiyou County area sacred to Native Americans has been designated a national monument by President Biden. On Jan. 14, Biden signed proclamations designating the Chuckwalla National Monument in ...

The precedent is there. In 2016, then-President Barack Obama designated more than a million acres in southern Utah as Bears Ears National Monument. Nearly one year later, as president, Trump ...

Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, created by President Joe Biden in 2023, incorporated lands that had existing bans against new claims. The ...

This includes Utah's Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase–Escalante National Monument, both of which Trump reduced in size in his first term, calling them a "massive land grab." ...