Will the lame-duck Congress save America’s most important parks program?

Last week’s midterm elections confirmed what Western outdoor voters already knew — support for public lands is a winning issue in the West. Following President Joe Biden’s designation of Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument in Colorado, at the request of Senator Michael Bennet after years of legislative efforts that repeatedly stalled out in a gridlocked U.S. Senate, Bennet […]

By Andre Miller and Lucy Livesay In his final months in office, President Obama has the opportunity to protect some truly spectacular lands as national monuments. Among the proposed monuments are Bears Ears in Utah, Gold Butte in Nevada, and Greater Grand Canyon Heritage in Arizona — all vistas like no where else on Earth. […]

The Land and Water Conservation Fund lapsed for the first time in 50 years last week. Despite broad bipartisan support in both the U.S. House and Senate, America’s most effective land conservation-funding program was allowed to expire because of an intransigent political minority, led by Congressman Rob Bishop (R-UT). So what happened when a fellow […]

When Rob Bishop was a high school history teacher, he expected his students to meet deadlines. Now that he’s a member of Congress, his constituents and the American people expect no less.

“There is no magic $20 billion, or even $1, waiting around for Congress to support the Land and Water Conservation Fund and its purposes.”