But through the decades, the act also has been used to protect areas not entirely viewed as scientific or historic: Fort Monroe National Monument or Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, ...

Fort Sumter National Monument is perched on a small island in Charleston Harbor several miles southwest of the city. Ferries to the monument depart from the Fort Sumter visitor center (in ...

Roughly 740,000 acres of the Mojave Desert comprise California's newest national monument in Riverside and Imperial counties. Chuckwalla National Monument was established in mid-January by ...

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 ...

In 2016, then-President Barack Obama designated more than a million acres in southern Utah as Bears Ears National Monument ... a councilman of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe, one of the ...

Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) has reintroduced a bill to establish Fort Ontario in Oswego, New York, as a National Monument under the National Park System. The legislation, known as the Fort ...

“This is as close as we could get.” Biden formally created the Chuckwalla National Monument, in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park, and the Sáttítla Highlands National ...

At 624,000 acres, Chuckwalla will become the fifth-largest land-based national monument in the continental U.S., stretching from the Coachella Valley to the Colorado River. The region is the ...

Biden signed proclamations creating the monuments a week after canceling a signing ceremony at the new Chuckwalla National Monument because of the winds that fanned wildfires in Los Angeles County.

"This is as close as we could get." Biden formally created the Chuckwalla National Monument, in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park, and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument ...

The White House announced last week that Biden would designate the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument — protecting a combined 848,000 acres of particular ...