Interior Department officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage ...

The push would spark an intense legal fight over the right of a president to grant sweeping lands protections under the 1906 ...

The Trump administration is considering reducing the size of several national monuments in the West to open up more land ...

Hovenweep National Monument, situated on the border of Utah and Colorado, protects a group of ancient villages constructed by ...

Interior Department officials are poring over geological maps to analyze ... to modify existing national monuments when he drastically shrank the boundaries of Utah’s Bears Ears and Grand ...

Some activists think the Trump administration's public lands initiatives — including a new review of a national monument's ...

“Protect, baby, protect,” “conserve, baby, conserve,” and “steward, baby, steward” have yet to make it into Burgum’s lexicon.

Visitation to Colorado National ... virtual maps, general information, and trail guides that can be downloaded to a smartphone,” she said. About 12,500 people hiked the Monument Canyon Trail ...

canyons and forests across the West — from protected red cliffs in Utah to national monuments in New Mexico — according to a new map analysis from the Center for Biological Diversity. Nearly 500 ...