Environmental essayist Edward Abbey posited some prescient thoughts about the fate of Arches, where he was a ranger in the ...

Interior Department officials are considering scaling back the boundaries of national monuments in the West to encourage energy development on public lands.

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

and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. This wouldn’t be the first time the Trump administration has taken a metaphorical axe to national monuments.

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It's estimated that since President Trump returned to office, the National Park Service has lost 2,400 employees due to federal cuts that have touched all corners of the government.

The Trump administration is considering reducing the size of several national monuments in the West to open up more land for energy development, according to The Washington Post. Officials at the ...