March 12, 2024
UTAH – On Friday, March 8, 2024, five Tribal Nations including the Ute Indian Tribe, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Zuni Tribe, Hopi Tribe, and the Navajo Nation, collaborated with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S.
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October 12, 2022
Denver, COLORADO – Today, the White House announced its newest protected public land, the Camp Hale-Continental
September 8, 2022
LAS VEGAS -- Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland traveled to southern Nevada to meet with the Tribal Council of the Mojave Tribe and local community leaders, including stops at sites considered sacred by several Tribes. One of the sites visited by Secretary Haaland, Rep. Susie Lee, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Laura Daniels-Davis, and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Nevada State Director Jon Raby, was Spirit Mountain, which is called Avi Kwa Ame by the Mojave Tribe.
March 26, 2022
Today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland visited Castner Range, where she was invited by local community groups belonging to the Castner Range Coalition, as they continue their 50 year campaign to permanently protect the site and advocate for its designation as a national monument.
October 7, 2021
Washington, DC -- The Biden administration has announced it will recommend a full restoration of safeguards for three national monuments whose boundaries were shrunk by the Trump administration. Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments as well as Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Marine Monument protect about five million acres of federal land and water — and will help the Biden administration achieve its goals of conserving 30% of lands and waters by 2030.
June 8, 2021
Haines, AK— On today’s 115th anniversary of the Antiquities Act, the Sierra Club called on the Biden administration to prioritize the bedrock environmental safeguard to protect cultural and historical sites, stop mass biodiversity loss, and fight the climate crisis.
Chris Hill, Director of the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America campaign, released the following statement:
“The Antiquities Act is one of the best safeguards to preserve places with deep cultural, historical and ecological significance.
June 1, 2021
Tulsa, OK— Today, as President Biden visits Tulsa to memorialize the centennial of the Tulsa Race Massacre, leaders called on his administration to designate the site, known as ‘Black Wall Street’ a national monument. For decades, Black people in our country have been under assault from systemic violence and an unfair political system more responsive to the voices of corporations than to community voices.
January 19, 2021
Biden will consider restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine Monument
December 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- After weeks of threatening to block the major military spending bill, President Trump vetoed the 2020 National Defense Authoritzation Act. The $740 billion bill is the major vehicle for funding the U.S. military and passed both the House of Representatives and Senate with veto-proof majorities. The 2020 bill includes a provision that would redesignate military installations currently named after prominent Confederate military and political leaders.
June 24, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- On June 22, the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of the Inspector General confirmed they were investigating the forceful dispersal of a peaceful protest affirming Black lives matter from Lafayette Square using tear gas and riot tactics to make way for a photo-op for President Donald Trump at historic St. John’s Episcopal church. Then, later in the day, U.S. Park Police again deployed tear gas and physical force against demonstrators protesting in the park.
June 5, 2020
Boston, MA— Today as the country faces an uprising for racial justice and ongoing pandemic, President Trump announced he will effectively eliminate protections for Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments in the Atlantic Ocean off the East Coast. The rollback will allow commercial fisheries to operate in the marine sanctuary— home to endangered coral and fish— and comes on World Environment Day.
September 23, 2019
SALT LAKE CITY -- Today marks the end of a public comment period for the Trump administration’s proposed management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The plan, being pushed forward despite ongoing legal challenges to the administration’s efforts to shrink the monument, opens significant portions of the remaining monument to dirty fuel development. More than 8,000 public comments were submitted in opposition to the Trump administration’s plan.