Sentences with phrase «national land monuments»
December 5, 2017 • President Trump's authority to reduce two national land monuments in Utah now faces legal challenges, as his administration considers what to do with 25 other protected territories under review.
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Obama had used the Antiquities Act more than any other president, his White House said in December, when he designated over 1.6 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as national monuments, protecting two areas rich in Native American artifacts from mining, oil and gas drilling.
On Wednesday, Trump is expected to sign an executive order related to the 1906 Antiquities Act, which enables the president to designate federal areas of land and water as national monuments to protect them from drilling, mining and development, the source said.
Slamming what he called «a massive federal land grab,» Trump signed an executive order directing his interior secretary to review the designation of dozens of national monuments on federal lands.
Even before Trump officially opened his high - profile review last spring of federal lands protected as national monuments, the Department of Interior was focused on the potential for oil and gas exploration at a protected Utah site, internal agency documents show.
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He pressed former President Barack Obama to make the land a national monument, which he did in August 2016.
October 27: Take to the trails on the birthday of Theodore Roosevelt, the conservationist president who reserved 230 million acres of land for national parks, forests and monuments.
«Diverse communities across the desert fought for over a decade to designate all three of our California desert national monuments,» Mojave Desert Land Trust Executive Director Danielle Segura told the Highland Community News in California on Wednesday.
Many archaeologists hoped that designating Bears Ears a national monument would help to mitigate this damage by boosting the budgets of federal land managers — allowing them to hire more staff, collect more baseline data on archaeological sites and do more outreach and education.
For Vernon Lee of the Moapa Band of Paiutes, a national monument designation for Gold Butte would be the next best thing to having the U.S. government return the land to his people.
This national monument set on 88 acres of private land and 2 km of private coastline, also a Nature Park with very special bird and sea life, was created from a former 19th century military fortress stunningly blended into the landscape.
On January 9, 1908, President Theodore Roosevelt declared the woods America's 10th National Monument — and the first monument created from land donated by a private individual.
Although Anacapa and Santa Barbara Islands were designated a national monument in 1938, it was not until March 5, 1980 that Congress established San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, and the submerged lands and waters within one nautical mile of each island as Channel Islands Nationnational monument in 1938, it was not until March 5, 1980 that Congress established San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Anacapa, Santa Barbara, and the submerged lands and waters within one nautical mile of each island as Channel Islands NationalNational Park.
Forty miles from downtown Santa Fe (or 50 miles from Albuquerque in the direction of Santa Fe), a national park pass will grant you free admission to monument land maintained by the Bureau of Land Managemland maintained by the Bureau of Land ManagemLand Management.
Plus: Houston museums begin to reopen Rashid Rana steps down as director of inaugural Lahore Biennale Report on national monuments recommends reductions to protected land and recommended reading
Monument to Cold War Victory, installation view including National Cold War Monuments and Environmental Heritage Trail by The National Toxic Land / Labor Conservation Service (est. 2011, United States) and Aerial by Francis Hunger (b. 1976, Dessau, Germany; lives Leipzig, Germany).
Recent and upcoming projects and exhibitions include, Pathways, Education Hub, Art commission, Maynooth University; A Fair Land, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Mobile Monuments, Fingal County Council public art commission; Huddle Tests solo show at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios; Huddlewear, Facebook AIR program residency / commission; Mobile Monuments, Fingal County Council 1916 Public Art commission; On that Note, Heart of Glass, Liverpool; Moving Thresholds, National Gallery of Ireland; Ridge, Verksmi ∂ jan, Hjalteyri, Iceland; It's All up in the Air, Norfolk and Norwich Arts Festival, Uk; Bolthole, Open Studio, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, IMMA www.rhonabyrne.com
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Recent and upcoming projects and exhibitions include, Pathways, Education Hub, Art commission, Maynooth University; A Fair Land, Irish Museum of Modern Art; Mobile Monuments, Fingal County Council public art commission; Huddle Tests solo show at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios; Huddlewear, Facebook AIR program residency / commission; Mobile Monuments, Fingal County Council 1916 Public Art commission; On that Note, Heart of Glass, Liverpool; Moving Thresholds, National Gallery of Ireland; Ridge, Verksmi ∂ jan, Hjalteyri, Iceland; It's All up in the Air, Norfolk and Norwich Arts Festival, Uk; Bolthole, Open Studio, Tate Modern and Tate Britain, IMMA
Her exhibitions include: «Made in Korea» at Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris; «Made in Pop Land» at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea; «Voyage of the Black Bird» at Atelier Hermès, Seoul; «Wonderland» at the National Museum of China, Beijing; «Modest Monuments» at King's Lynn Arts Centre, King's Lynn; «Art Spectrum» at Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; and the Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju.
Top reporters at an event sponsored by the Society of Environmental Journalists predicted clashes in 2018 over climate, drilling on public lands, environmental laws, infrastructure, national monuments and more.
The Trump administration has put 27 national monuments on the chopping block, endangering more than 1 billion acres of America's most spectacular, culturally important and ecologically intact public lands and oceans.
The monument includes 11,836 acres of the San Isabel National Forest and 9,750 acres of Bureau of Land Management lLand Management landland.
To guard «the most glorious heritage a people ever received,» he protected 230 million acres of land and created 23 new national parks, and passed the Antiquities Act that let presidents «declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest... to be National Monumentsnational parks, and passed the Antiquities Act that let presidents «declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic and scientific interest... to be National MonumentsNational Monuments.»
In fact, these new national monuments matter a lot right now because the current crop of legislators in congress aren't setting any new land aside for national parks for the first time in six decades.
Zinke's review of the national monuments is a thinly veiled guise to open up those lands to fossil fuel development and other destruction.