Republicans have introduced two bills to prevent presidents from creating national monuments. Conservation groups say the public supports protections of public lands. Some local leaders believe ...

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Proponents say the new monuments will protect a plethora of vulnerable wildlife and culturally significant sites while staving off development and resource extraction. Biden signed proclamations ...

President Biden has officially designated two new national monuments in California. The White House announced last week that Biden would designate the Chuckwalla National Monument and the ...

Federal officials will review and potentially redraw the boundaries of national monuments created in past presidencies, according to The Associated Press. In a new report published Feb.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native ...

The most iconic landmarks have a way of getting stuck in our brains before we ever see them. Take the Eiffel Tower: its singular spire has been reproduced on countless postcards and T-shirts ...

In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while ...

The 224,000-acre Sáttítla Highlands National Monument is in Northern California and features the dormant Medicine Lake Volcano. Biden, in a speech ahead of the monument proclamations, said ...

With the creation of the Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments, Biden will have conserved more lands and waters than any other president, according to the White House. Some off-roaders ...