National Parks Traveler Episode 140: News Around The Parks
It’s mid-October, the visitation season is slowing down for the northern tier of the United States, but that doesn’t mean news from the National Park System is ebbing.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Reaction To Biden's Move To Restore Original Boundaries To National Monuments
Reaction to news that President Biden was restoring the original boundaries to two national monuments in Utah and one off the coast of New England was predictable, with tribes, conservationists, and environmentalists applauding the move, and Utah politicians highly critical of the decision.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 1st, 2024 1:24am
UPDATED | Biden To Restore Boundaries To Bears Ears, Grand Staircase Monuments
President Biden, in a move certain to please tribes, conservationists, and environmentalists while sure to anger Utah officials, has decided to restore the original boundaries to Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts national monuments, according to U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva.
- By Kurt Repanshek - October 7th, 2021 7:03pm
Haaland's Utah Visit Leaves Her Much To Ponder Over Bears Ears, Grand Staircase Boundaries
For the third time in less than five years an Interior secretary has visited southern Utah to try to grasp the significance of a landscape with a cultural heritage that reaches back thousands of years, one that also entombs paleontological remains millions of years old, in a bid to determine the appropriate size of two national monuments.
U.S. Supreme Court Allows Conservation Groups To Intervene In Utah Lands Matter
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to allow two conservation groups to intervene in Utah cases involving state efforts to have dirt washes, seasonal streambeds, and possibly even cattle trails and hiking paths declared roads across federal lands.
- By NPT Staff - January 29th, 2021 1:45am
Biden Administration To Review Trump Actions On National Monuments
President Biden plans to have his Interior Department review boundary changes the Trump administration made to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, and its opening of commercial fishing in the Northeast Canyon and Seamounts National Monument off Cape Cod.
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 20th, 2021 3:10pm
What Is The Future Of Bears Ears And Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments?
Among the items on President-elect Joe Biden's to-do list that is expected to get quick action is an executive order rescinding President Trump's dismantling of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, action that possibly could spur even more legal battles over these unique landscapes.
- By Kurt Repanshek - November 11th, 2020 2:00am
Utah Congressman Proposes Sixth National Park For Beehive State
A congressman from Utah has introduced legislation to create a sixth national park out of remnants of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument that President Trump, in a move being contested in court, broke into pieces and reduced in size.
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- By Kurt Repanshek - October 15th, 2020 1:49pm
National Parks Traveler Episode 52: Accessible Parks, Utah's Dismantled Monuments
Candy Harrington, a journalist who traveled the National Park System to see how accessible lodges and trails in the parks really are, discusses her new book on accessibility in the parks. And Cory MacNulty and Erika Pollard from the National Parks Conservation Association’s Southwest Regional Office discuss the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s plans for managing the greatly reduced in size Bears Ears and Grand Staircase monuments, and the roughly 2 million acres that were pulled out of the monuments so they could be opened to mining, grazing, and other resource-impacting activities.
Trump Administration's Plans For Utah Monuments Draw Heavy Criticism
Plans by the Trump administration to open lands once inside the boundaries of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah to mining and other resource-impacting uses drew heavy criticism from environmental and conservation groups Thursday.
- By Kurt Repanshek - February 6th, 2020 2:12pm
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