Climate Change
Conservation Won Big Under Biden. Environmentalists and Tribal Leaders Fear Trump Will Undo Those Gains
While public lands protections are widely popular with the American public, the Trump administration has signaled it will again look to reduce the size of national monuments and roll back conservation measures.
From the red-rock country and canyonlands of the Colorado Plateau to the Joshua trees of the Mojave Desert, some of the West’s most iconic and wild places are now stitched together in the largest corridor of protected lands in the continental U.S. after former President Joe Biden created two new national monuments in California in his last week in office.