National Monuments

If Fitpacking Owner Steve Silberberg paid his guides a set rate for every hour they spent in the backcountry while leading multi-day trips through national parks and forests, he wouldn't have enough money leftover to pay for anything else. President Donald Trump on May 25 ...read more

On Thursday, Patagonia’s homepage slideshow featured pictures of a surfer riding a wave, the new micro puff, a dam, and other colorful scenes. By the end of the day, another, more stark image had been added to the mix. The black screen is back, with a new message this time: “The ...read more

Remember when a Utah legislator proposed renaming the Utah National Parks Highway after President Donald Trump? Yeah, that won't happen. Republican Rep. Michael Noel's legislation did not gain traction in the House, and therefore didn't even make it to the Senate floor. It was ...read more

Environmentalists are shaking their heads in disgust at the thought of having a Utah highway named after President Donald Trump, especially one that winds through canyons and by public lands that he shrunk last year with the stroke of his presidential pen. State legislators in a ...read more

In eight days, more than 2 million acres that was formerly within Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments (before President Trump shrank it) will open up to possible mineral and geothermal leasing. Conservation Lands Foundation, The Wilderness Society and ...read more

Local and national controversy has surrounded Maine’s recently established Katahdin Woods & Waters National Monument in recent months. While there has been plenty of noise generated by these debates, none of it has touched on the reason the monument was created in the first ...read more

In a nutshell, here's the deal. Patagonia and various GOP officials have been duking it out via twitter and very public homepage statements about the way in which America values, treats, supports, and best uses its sacred public lands. It's a war that has been raging since the ...read more

The chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee sent a letter Friday to Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard on Friday, inviting him to speak to the committee about the administration's proposed cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.   Immediately ...read more

“There are no words. It’s heartbreaking,” Ace Kvale, outdoor photographer, told SNEWS as he was leaving the Salt Lake City protest against President Trump’s controversial announcement to downsize both Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. With much resistance but little ...read more

President Trump plans to move forward with a plan that will shrink the size of two national monuments in Utah, according to Utah Senator Orrin Hatch. The Senator said Trump informed him Friday via phone that he would be approve Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s recommendation to ...read more

National Public Lands Day is this Saturday, September 30th. This week we launched a limited-edition Bears Ears sock to celebrate the event and help support the Conservation Alliance Public Lands Defense Fund. We recently learned from the report submitted to the White House that ...read more

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke recommended President Donald Trump decrease the size of at least four national monuments, according to a leaked memo obtained by the Associated Press. Aside from Bears Ears, which Zinke recommended shrinking earlier this summer, he also proposed ...read more

In an open letter released on Tuesday, more than 350 veteran National Park Service employees pleaded with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to deny proposed oil and gas leases adjacent to park borders. "National parks represent the best of America," the letter says, adding that they ...read more

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is expected to recommend to President Donald Trump that he should decrease the boundaries of some national monuments. Zinke told the Associated Press Thursday morning that he would not recommend eliminating any monuments, and that none of the land in ...read more

The National Park Service turns 101 on Friday. You can celebrate by heading to any national park for fee-free entrance, but why not say "Happy Birthday" by buying an annual pass? It's the best $80 you'll spend all year, we promise. We took a look at the list of least-visited ...read more

In a first for the brand, Patagonia will air a commercial throughout the state of Montana this week, aimed at Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke.  Zinke has just a few days left before he must give President Donald Trump official recommendations on the monuments currently under review. ...read more

Hundreds of outdoor industry businesses have banded together to show that our public lands, and particularly the monuments in danger, are vital to the recreation economy. On Aug. 24, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will make his official recommendations to President Donald Trump ...read more

With the comment period for the review of 27 national monuments totaling 11.3 million acres at the U.S. Department of the Interior coming to a close on July 10, there's a possibility for some sweeping changes in federal public lands. We've already expressed our opinion, but we ...read more

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke says he spent days learning "more about Bears Ears than [he] ever thought possible." After taking a multi-day tour through the area, he announced Monday that he has recommended President Donald Trump shrink the boundaries of Bears Ears National ...read more

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt signed the Antiquities Act into law, which grants presidents the authority to declare “objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national ...read more

Leaders from the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition called Trump's national monument review a thinly veiled attack on the monument. If President Donald Trump tries to rescind the protected status of Bears Ears National Monument, he’ll be hit with a lawsuit to the fullest extent ...read more

Patagonia announced early this morning that it would not be attending Outdoor Retailer Summer Market this year, or any future shows hosted in Utah, because of the state's opposition to Bears Ears National Monument and other public lands issues. On Friday, Utah Gov. Gary ...read more