Outdoor gear company Patagonia won’t stop protecting public lands and the environment. Now, it’s helping the rest of us join in. On Wednesday, Patagonia launched a new website that connects everyday people to nearby environmental activism.
Native American tribes, outdoors associations, and everyone else who does not want to see America’s national monuments shrunk found an unlikely ally this week: folks who study dinosaurs.
Information trickled out about President Trump’s decision to shrink Bears Ears National Monument for weeks. On Monday, that trickle turned into a flash flood.
Like most of Trump’s cabinet, Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke is uniquely unqualified for his job. He doesn’t really give a shit about conserving federal lands—his primary mission. And today he demonstrated his own weird internal logic by installing Big Buck Hunter, an arcade game where you’re given plastic shotguns…
President Obama has designated 1.65 million acres in Southeastern Utah and Nevada as National Monuments, protecting the land from private development and granting the federal government broad control to protect it. The new monument includes Bears Ears Buttes in Utah, and Gold Butte near Las Vegas.
Lady Liberty, the Golden Gate Bridge—they didn't just appear there one day. Here's a look at what some of America's greatest monuments looked like before they became the iconic images we know today.
