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President Obama Designates Two New National Monuments

by wilderness | Jan 3, 2017 | 2016, Bears Ears, Nevada, New National Monument, Utah

With just a few days left in 2016, President Obama designated two new national monuments, protecting over 1.6 million additional acres of our nation’s public lands.Bears Ears National Monument (named for two distinctive buttes that rise high above Cedar Mesa)...

New National Monuments Declared

by wilderness | Feb 27, 2015 | Accomplishments, Barack Obama, Colorado, conservation, Monument Designation, New National Monument, volunteer, White House Barack Obama, wild, wilderness

Chalk Cliffs of Browns Canyon, Colorado. Photo by John Fielder / Friends of Browns CanyonLast week, President Obama declared three new National Monuments under the 1906 Antiquities Act.  The three areas offer a range of of educational, historical and wilderness...

Newest National Monument – Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks

by wilderness | May 21, 2014 | 2014 trips, Accomplishments, Barack Obama, Leave No Trace, New Mexico, New National Monument, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, volunteer

Organ Mountains as seen from the east.Nearly 500,000 acres of beautiful New Mexico wild land are now protected with the declaration of the new Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument. The work in managing the monument only begins once the land is...

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