Poverty Point National Monument, a historic site in Louisiana that was a major trade center 3,000 years ago, has been nominated for designation as a World Heritage Site by the Interior Department. The ...

Hirono asked Burgum -- who has been picked by President-elect Trump to lead the Department of the Interior -- about whether he would drill in Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. "I'll follow the ...

Haaland and Davids “know what poverty really looks like,” he ... In Utah, Bears Ears National Monument is on the chopping block. The San Juan County Commission has been a big proponent of ...

The National Park Conservation Association has identified 13 national monuments it considers at risk after a recent Interior Department order.

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 ...

Mark Amodei, announced plans Thursday for legislation that would require congressional approval of all future national ... Monument designation in March. Conservation groups, however, point ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...