Voices: The Trump administration poses a significant threat to Utah’s national monuments and America’s natural heritage

Voices: The Trump administration poses a significant threat to Utah’s national monuments and America’s natural heritage

Our national monuments belong to the people of this country. They protect our most important cultural and natural resources — many monuments have ultimately become cherished national parks like Zion, Arches, Capitol Reef, Grand Canyon and Grand Teton. They include sacred cultural landscapes co-managed by tribes and some of our most important historical sites like Hovenweep, Avi Kwa Ame (Spirit Mountain), and Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral …

DEBORAH DOMINE: America’s favorite government agency is facing punishing cuts

I am a statistic. Since the year began, I have visited two of the 63 congressionally designated National Parks. Those parks, along with National Monuments and hundreds of other parks, make up the 433 federally owned properties open to each…

Are America's National Monuments At Risk?

When the desire to protect a certain region collides with the desire to extract as many resources as possible from that same region, what will the end result be? We may be witnessing that debate play out in real time in many of the country’s national monuments. At least, that’s one of the central themes of a recent article by Lila Seidman at the Los Angeles Times. And while Seidman’s article focuses on California’s national monuments, this is an…

National parks cuts threaten America the beautiful

Trump administration cutbacks at parks and the Forest Service affect all Americans.

California national parks post big visitor increases as Donald Trump’s staff cuts loom

The U.S. National Parks Bring In Much More Money Than They Take from…

You won’t “make America great again” if you destroy the greatest treasure our country owns: our National Park System. The math doesn’t work out, Pauline…