The U.S. government issued the final management plan for lands in and around a Utah national monument.
President Donald Trump has signed proclamations to formally scale back two sprawling national monuments in Utah: Bears Ears and Grand-Staircase Escalante.
President Trump is shrinking two national monuments in Utah, accepting the recommendation of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to reverse protections established by two Democratic presidents, a Republican senator said Friday.
Reports that U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposes downsizing Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada are drawing condemnation from environmental advocates and Democratic elected officials.
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order Wednesday instructing the Interior Department to review national monument designations made over the past two decades.
The U.S. National Park Service is celebrating its centennial. On August 25th 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed The Organic Act of 1916, creating the National Park Service.
Federal land managers have issued a special recreation permit that will allow a popular off-highway race from Las Vegas to Reno to pass through a new national monument next week with special restrictions that include a slower, no-pass zone on existing dirt roads.
Top federal land administrators on Saturday dedicated a sprawling new national monument in southern Nevada.
President Obama has designated a sprawling desert and mountain area in southeast Nevada as a new national monument. The Basin and Range National Monument is located about two hours from Las Vegas and is about 1,100 square miles.
Mammoth bones, prehistoric rock carvings and more than a million acres of wilderness will be protected as part of new national monuments in California, Nevada and Texas.