With less than two weeks left in his presidency, President Joe Biden designated two new national monuments in the West. Biden signed proclamations Tuesday creating the Chuckwalla National Monument ...

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

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 ...

Trump downsized monuments in the West during his first term, and a far-right contingent has called for abolishing the Antiquities Act, the 1906 law that allows presidents to designate national ...

A boat on Shasta Lake in Shasta-Trinity National Forest near ... the Antiquities Act. The new monuments of protected land will expand a corridor farther west, according to the White House.

The monument would protect public lands south of Joshua Tree National Park, spanning the Coachella Valley region in the west to near the Colorado River. Advocates say the monument will protect a ...

The Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sattitla Highlands National ... and yesterday's actions to protect the East and West coasts and Northern Bering Sea from offshore oil and natural gas ...

COACHELLA VALLEY, Calif. — With less than two weeks left in his presidency, President Joe Biden designated two new national monuments in the West. Biden signed proclamations Tuesday creating the ...

A sign is set up ahead of President Joe Biden's visit to the Chuckwalla National Monument early morning Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, to the Coachella Valley, Calif. Dangerously high winds have forced ...