Millions of years ago, oceans (and later sand dunes) covered the Colorado Plateau. Eventually the seas receded, faults uplifted, rocks eroded, and Colorado National Monument became a ... altering the ...

and a week after he had to cancel a trip to what are now the new Chuckwalla monument lands due to high winds. The site stretches south of Joshua Tree National Park and east almost to the Colorado ...

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being ...

President Donald Trump, Congress and the Department of Interior have set a course to peel back safeguards on public lands, ...

Proponents of creating a national monument to preserve one of Colorado’s “last, best wild places” are pivoting on strategy in the face of new President Donald Trump’s hostility to such ...

In an order on Monday, new Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that federal lands and waters should be reviewed for potential energy and natural resources. That could possibly include the ...

“Everything's on the table till they take it off the table, and they didn't take anything off the table here,” said Kristen Brengel, senior ... nation’s first national monument established ...

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." ...

The southernmost tip of Point Loma is where you'll find the Cabrillo National Monument. The statue depicts Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo who, in 1542, was the first European explorer to navigate the ...

At the Bandelier National Monument, visitors can explore the remnants of one of these settlements. At the base of Frijoles Canyon are a collection of ancient cave dwellings and other stone ...