Antiquities Act

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has ordered federal officials to review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous presidents to protect unique landscapes and cultural resources.

Native American tribes and conservation groups are pressing President Joe Biden to designate more national monuments before he leaves office next month.

Arizona’s governor and attorney general say the state legislature doesn’t have the legal standing to undo the designation of a national monument near the Grand Canyon. President Joe Biden made the declaration last summer.

The Havasupai and Hopi tribes joined the Navajo Nation in a filing to intervene in legal challenges to the 2022 designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is urging President Joe Biden to use the Antiquities Act to designate the tribally proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument.

Tribal leaders and elected officials have renewed a push for a new national monument near Grand Canyon National Park. It builds on previous attempts to protect more than a million acres that are significant to several local tribes.

President Joe Biden has designated two new national monuments: Castner Range, a lush mountainous area in West Texas that once served as a military training ground; and Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada. Its name comes from the Mojave word for Spirit Mountain. It’s a biologically diverse and culturally significant swath of land bordering several other protected areas in the region.

Several tribes and environmental groups have filed legal motions in lawsuits challenging the restoration of national monuments in southern Utah. The groups aim to defend President Joe Biden’s protections of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland toured two national monuments last week in southern Utah. The Biden-Harris administration is considering restoring…

The federal government has unveiled final management plans for two national monuments in Utah that President Donald Trump downsized more than two years…