national monuments

Sen. Michael Bennet introduces bill to protect national monuments

Feb 2, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

There’s a land rush starting today in Utah that at least one Colorado senator wants to make certain never happens in his state. Miners are staking claims to parcels of land in large swaths of what formerly was about 2 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, along Colorado’s southwest…
Trump’s reduction of national monuments draws impassioned reactions in Colorado

Dec 5, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado’s environmentalists and Democratic politicians blasted President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he would drastically reduce the size of two wilderness national monuments in Utah. Some asked whether federal land in Colorado would be next. “In Colorado, we value our lands because they are part of our fabric and they strengthen local economies,”…
Feds’ vague plan keeps monuments, including Canyons of the Ancients

Aug 24, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

The long-awaited review of national monuments designated by other presidents over the last two decades landed, sort of, Thursday. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he has sent President Trump a plan that would preserve all 27 monuments as federal assets, including Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients, but some could shrink. The Interior Department didn’t release…
Bipartisan group of federal, state officials urge Trump to protect Colorado monument

May 30, 2017

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Adam McCoy, special to Colorado Politics

As the White House continues its survey of dozens of national monument designations, a bipartisan group of federal lawmakers from Colorado and a state official have urged the Trump administration to protect the state’s lone site under review. President Donald Trump ordered the Department of the Interior in late April to begin reviewing designations of national monuments…
Hickenlooper says it’s ‘unlikely’ Colorado national monuments will face Trump-ordered review

Apr 27, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper said late Thursday that he’s confident that Colorado’s national monuments won’t be threatened as a result of an executive order signed this week by President Trump instructing his interior secretary to conduct a review. Hickenlooper said he discussed the executive order Wednesday in Washington, D.C., with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and two…
National monuments review by Trump could threaten Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients

Apr 26, 2017

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Joey Bunch

President Donald Trump’s executive order Wednesday to review national monuments wasn’t as broad as opponents feared, but it still could put Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients at risk. Trump asked the Interior Department to review national monuments designated since 1996 that are more than 100,000 acres. President Clinton designated the original 164,000-acre-tract of the Canyons…
Colorado leaders warily await Trump’s order Wednesday to review national monuments

Apr 25, 2017

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Joey Bunch

President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday to take another look at every national monument designated since the middle of the Clinton administration, and that means three in Colorado are on the list. The Antiquities Act of 1906 allows the president to set aside important assets from drilling, mining and development. Trump’s…
Obama’s environmental legacy: Some 24 national monuments

Aug 16, 2016

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Kevin Freking

The race is on to win President Barack Obama’s attention as he puts some final touches on his environmental legacy. Conservation groups, American Indian tribes and federal lawmakers are urging his administration to preserve millions of acres as national monuments. Such a designation often prevents new drilling and mining on public lands, or the construction…