How the Trump Administration’s Public Land Orders Could Impact National Monuments Like Camp Hale

How the Trump administration’s public land orders could impact national monuments like Camp Hale

In the last month, President Donald Trump, Congress and the Department of Interior have set a course to peel back safeguards on public lands, including national monuments and other designations that ban development and extraction.  On Monday, Feb. 3, on his first day in office, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued a series of orders advancing Trump’s energy and environmental agenda. Among them was a broad order titled “Unleashing American Energ…

Treasured Public Lands on the Auction Block in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

A Senate provision in Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill puts millions of acres of recreation lands up for sale to the highest bidder.

Threats to Public Lands Intensify - Archaeology Southwest

Dear Friends, Fair warning: This note is not about archaeology, at least not per se. It’s about my attempts to make meaning out of the chaos that seems to get even more chaotic by the day. I try to work out every weekday. The elliptical machine is my tool of choice. With some Air pods cranking out the tunes, I can zone out and hopefully achieve something akin to a runner’s high. Those 30 minutes give me time to reflect, to listen to amazing arti…