#national-monuments — Public Fediverse posts
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Colorado National Monument today. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/colm/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/colm/learn/nature/geology.htm and https://www.nps.gov/subjects/swscience/pinyon-juniper-woodlands.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments #colorado Image credit National Park Service #spring #geology #rock #sandstone #trees #pinyon #juniper
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Hiking with Hoodoos: New Mexico’s Tent Rocks
Scenic stone vista“Is it any wonder that the Cochiti people believe Tent Rocks is a living landscape, as their mere presence changes by the moment based on the trajectory of the sun, the angularity of light and shadows, variabilities in weather conditions, or the demeanor of clouds passing overhead.”
– panethos.wordpress.com
We had our first opportunity to visit magical Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument located between Albuquerque and Santa Fe on April 16. It is hard to describe the surreal beauty of this national monument that includes a magnificent slot canyon, tent-shaped rock formations that are jaw-dropping in their multi-faceted geological history, and other spectacular natural features dotting this post-volcanic landscape.
The national monument is situated within the Cochiti Pueblo.
“For the Pueblo de Cochiti, Kasha-Katuwe is a living cultural landscape. The cliffs, mesas, and canyons are connected to oral histories, traditional teachings, and long-standing relationships between the people and the land. These places have served as areas for travel, observation, learning, and spiritual reflection across generations. Respect for the land is central to Pueblo values, and care for Kasha-Katuwe reflects responsibilities passed down through families and community leadership.” – Cochiti.org
Due to the rare and delicate geological structure of the formations, as well as their spiritual importance to the Cochiti people, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument has a limited operating schedule that requires prior reservations and prepaid fees for visitors to traverse these amazing formations.
Source: blm.govA national recreation trail leads both hikers and sightseers through a meandering slot canyon and up a steep incline past the tapered hoodoos to a mesa summit. A second trail passes a once-occupied shelter cave and a gathering of hoodoos that resemble a quiet campground amongst the juniper trees or Native American teepee village from afar. A separate scenic overlook is located at the northwest corner of the monument.
Throughout this post are a series of photographs that depict the amazing beauty of Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument.
Peace!
Weaving through the slot canyon Geological wonderHoodoo Tent Village Tent CityWithin the slot canyonView from atop the mesaTent tops Narrow passage Perched atop a tent rockSurreal landscape Layers of sediment colors Skylighting Enchanted scenery #archaeology #environment #fun #geography #geology #hiking #history #hoodoos #landUse #landscape #NationalMonuments #NativeAmeriucaqns #nature #NewMexico #slotCanyon #TentRocks #TentRocksNationalMonument #tourism #travel #volcanoes -
Hype for the Future 135F: National Forests of the Cascades (Oregon)
Introduction Within the State of Oregon, much of the Cascade Range is set aside by the federal government to serve as sites of the associated national forests of the region, including the Fremont-Winema, Umpqua, Deschutes, Willamette, and Mount Hood National Forests. Apart from the aforementioned national forests of the area, surrounding communities also play large roles on both the east and west sides of the range, the former often coinciding with the High Desert region spanning much of the […] -
Hype for the Future 133CGR: Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
Overview The Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is a monument located within the central portion of Pinal County, Arizona, and home to a Hohokam desert compound from the fourteenth century containing four stories, a ball court, and irrigation canals in the area. Visitors may be permitted to walk through the ruins, and sunscreen is heavily recommended, particularly between the months of April and October. -
These #nationalmonuments are 10 of the best #hiddengems in the whole #nationalpark system
https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/best-national-monuments-to-visit
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Drinking Water for Millions Is Threatened as Trump Targets National Monuments
About 83 percent of water passing through public lands has no other protection besides the monument designations. -
#Environmentalism #NationalMonuments #TakeAction Protect our marine national monuments | NRDC
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Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument today (Pakoon Springs). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/para/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/para/learn/historyculture/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/para/planyourvisit/pakoon-springs-trail.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments Image credit National Park Service #clouds #history #geology #basin #springs #fall #nationalmonument
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DOJ opinion clears way for Trump to eliminate national monuments. #NationalMonuments #EnvironmentalProtection #Conservation
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In March, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order demanding that the negative parts of American history be excised from public monuments. A May follow-up order from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum led to QR codes being displayed in national parks that asked visitors to snitch if they came across information that was negative about past or living Americans. Now volunteer preservationists from Safeguarding Research & Culture and the Data Rescue Project have launched a campaign, Save Our Signs, asking people to upload photos of signage on public lands in order to preserve them if they're removed. @404mediaco explains more about the campaign. “To maintain a democratic society, it is essential for the electorate to be well-informed, which includes having a thorough awareness of our historical challenges,” Lynda Kellam, a founding member of the Data Rescue Project, says. “This project combines our expertise as data librarians and preservationists and our concern for telling the full story of our country.”
#USHistory #TrumpAdministration #Histodons @histodons #History #NationalParks #NationalMonuments
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"The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument in Las Cruces [New Mexico] is one of six national monuments Interior Department officials have identified to lose federal protections (...)
Those federal protections prevent private companies from exploiting the monuments for minerals, oil and gas or other commodities."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/report-organ-mountains-nm-list-221630603.html
#conservation #NationalMonuments #USA #NewMexico #wildlife #nature
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Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument today (Tassi Ranch). Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/para/index.htm and https://www.nps.gov/places/tassi-ranch.htm and #interpretation #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #landscapephotography #photography #nationalmonuments Image credit National Park Service #clouds #noclouds #ranch #history #green #spring
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WH spox Harrison Fields said #Trump “shocked” the energy industry back to life & called on the Senate to “liberate our federal lands & waters to #oil, #gas, #coal, #geothermal, & #mineral leasing.”
…With the opinion, the Trump admin is saying it has the power to abolish or shrink #NationalMonuments that have not yet been ratified by #Congress, said John Leshy, a University of California College of the #Law professor who served as #Interior’s solicitor general in the #Clinton admin. -
The opinion cites #SCOTUS Chief Justice #JohnRoberts in his 2021 response to a denial of certiorari in Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Assn v. Raimondo that he’d be interested in hearing a challenge to the #AntiquitiesAct.
Roberts wrote that the act’s use has been “transformed into a power without any discernible limit to set aside vast & amorphous expanses of terrain,” & the court may have an opportunity to consider the issue in the future.
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“We conclude that the #AntiquitiesAct permits the President to alter a prior declaration of a national monument, including by finding that the ‘landmarks,’ ‘structures,’ or ‘objects’ identified in the prior declaration either never were or no longer are deserving of the Act’s protections,” the #DOJ opinion issued May 27 concludes.
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The slip opinion that was made public Tuesday reverses & disavows a 1938 #DOJ opinion, which the federal government has relied upon to determine that monument designations are irrevocable.
https://www.justice.gov/olc/media/1403101/dl
It specifically challenges #Biden’s 2025 creation of #Chuckwalla & #SáttítlaHighlands #NationalMonuments in #California. Both received broad support from area tribes, the #state, & California’s congressional delegation.
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#Trump has been largely hostile to large #NationalMonuments & has taken steps to consider allowing #drilling & #mining companies to access minerals within them.
In his first term, Trump shrank Utah’s Bears Ears & Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, which were created by fmr #Democratic presidents Barack #Obama & Bill #Clinton. President Joe #Biden re-expanded those monuments. Both are now subject to litigation brought by Utah….
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#Trump #DOJ Outlines Legal Justification to Abolish Monuments
A US president’s power to create & undo #NationalMonuments under the 1906 #AntiquitiesAct is among the White House’s “most sweeping unilateral powers,” the DOJ said in a slip opinion.
The opinion forms the DOJ’s rationale for abolishing national monuments, many of which have been declared by presidents to protect large swaths of #PublicLand from development.
#law #PublicLands #conservation #drilling #mining
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/trump-doj-outlines-legal-justification-to-abolish-monuments-1 -
Concern for monuments like the Rio Grande del Norte and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks have been heightened since reports emerged in April that the U.S. Department of the Interior was considering reducing the area and protected status of six national monuments — including the OMDP, which comprises nearly 500,000 acres.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_9a4280d0-80cd-460d-a814-417ef8290258.html
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Trump cut funds from wasteful projects to spend on wasteful statue garden https://www.allforgardening.com/1320207/trump-cut-funds-from-wasteful-projects-to-spend-on-wasteful-statue-garden/ #americans #DonaldTrump #garden #GovernmentSpending #history #NationalEndowmentForTheArts #NationalMonuments #NationalParks #TrumpAdministration
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Evergreen huckleberry and Douglas’ iris from Trinidad Head today. The California Coastal National Monument is the backdrop for these views. For more information https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/california/california-coastal and https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1067&context=botany_jps and #publiclands #photography #phenology #nationalmonuments #ocean #flowers #huckleberry #iris #coast #california Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs
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Reports that the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument is on a short list of designations under target by the Trump administration have riled New Mexico’s congressional delegation as well as Las Cruces leaders involved in the monument’s designation by President Barack Obama nearly 11 years ago.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_65db7c89-dc66-491c-b02f-2e6f1036ea5a.html
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But Kristen Brengel, senior VP of govt affairs at the #NationalParks #Conservation Association, noted Roosevelt himself used the #law to #protect the huge swath of #land that later became #GrandCanyon National Park.
“He stood on the rim of the Grand Canyon & said he was going to protect it, & then he did,” she said.#Trump #SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw
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*#Conservatives* in Western states especially have long seen the president’s power to unilaterally set aside land as an example of federal overreach, w/many viewing it as a burdensome restriction on #mining & #drilling.
…During his confirmation hearing, Interior Secretary #DougBurgum said the #AntiquitiesAct is meant only for small, “Indiana Jones-type archeological” sites.🤦🏼♀️
#Trump #SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #conservation #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
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Signed into #law by President Theodore Roosevelt, the #AntiquitiesAct of 1906 gives presidents vast powers to #protect #lands & #waters through the creation of #NationalMonuments. But the law is quiet on whether presidents can remove designations set by their predecessors.
The Bureau of Land Management administers ~17k square miles of national monuments in the West….#Trump #SacredLand #PublicLands #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw
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Other performance metrics include removing #protections for #EndangeredSpecies that have *recovered* & restoring “historic [racist] names” to #landmarks. On his first day back in office, #Trump stripped #NorthAmerica’s tallest mountain of its #Indigenous name, #Denali, & restored its previous title, Mount McKinley.
#SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
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The draft strategic plan spells out the #Trump admin’s #Interior Dept’s priorities through 2030, which include increasing production of #FossilFuels, opening #lands in #Alaska & elsewhere to #minerals extraction, reducing grazing costs & trying to “release” federal holdings for housing #development.
#SacredLand #NationalMonuments #PublicLands #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law
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While #Interior ofcls declined to comment about any potential monument review, the approach was outlined in a “strategic plan draft framework” shared w/ WaPo. One of the dept’s “potential performance measures” going forward, acc/to the document, will be making sure #NationalMonuments are “assessed & *correctly* sized.”
#Trump #SacredLand #conservation #habitats #ecosystems #wildlife #FossilFuels #ClimateChange #EnvironmentalLaw #law