WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the Next 100 Coalition of over 50 civil rights, environmental justice, conservation, and community organizations wrote a letter to the President expressing concern with the ambiguous guidance and lack of transparency in the Executive Order Review of Designations Under the Antiquities Act. The groups also demanded that the Administration meet with […]
Washington, D.C. – Today, the President signed an Executive Order directing the administration to review national monuments over 100,000 acres designated after 1996 under the Antiquities Act. A significant number of the monuments covered under this review represent designations made under the Antiquities Act by previous presidents to celebrate the diverse people and places that […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Obama issued a Presidential Memorandum providing guidance to our nation’s public lands agencies on increasing the diversity and inclusion of the histories, cultures, knowledge and people represented in our public lands systems. In addition, President Obama designated three new national monuments — Freedom Riders National Monument, Birmingham Civil Rights National […]
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), the federal law that provides a measure of protection for places that are significant in American history.
