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As critics work to roll back new Bureau of Land Management rules, public lands advocates are defending the agency's move to put conservation uses on equal footing with extraction and development. Matthew Kirby, senior director of energy and landscape conservation for the National Parks Conservation Association, said the new rules can be used to benefit national parks, for example, by reducing pollution from oil and gas drilling on the 3.3 million acres of BLM-managed mineral rights in eastern Colorado. "Thousands of feet higher than where the actual drilling is happening, you can go...

U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday announced the expansion of Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, which covers parts of Colusa County, and the renaming of a ridgeline in an effort

Conservation groups, tribes and community organizers are praising President Joe Biden's decision Thursday to expand two national monuments in California. Together, the monuments will gain about 120,000 acres. The Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument is 90 minutes northwest of Sacramento and the San Gabriel Mountains National Monument lies just east of Los Angeles. ...

In California, San Gabriel Mountains and Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monuments will now include land sacred to Native Nations

Australian war artist George Washington Lambert wanted the fallen to be remembered as they were in life. In Gallipoli's waste land he found, springing out of the ground, the perfect symbols of youth and sacrifice, of death and renewal, of the squalor and the glory of war and the debt owed to nature