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The 1964 Wilderness Act still has plenty of supporters, but it's also under growing attack from opponents who say it has been used to block plans that could improve wilderness areas in the long run. The landmark law just turned 60. https://t.co/D2zrYOTqTd
Tribal leaders and a group of California lawmakers called on President Biden Wednesday to create three new national monuments in the Golden State. The coalition urged him to designate the proposed Sáttítla, Chuckwalla and Kw’tsán national monuments. https://t.co/49Jz1E2qUJ
Carter’s deathwatch yields to plans for his 100th birthday bash:
The Jimmy Carter National Historical Park is getting ready to host an Oct. 1 concert and naturalization ceremony to mark the milestone for the 39th president. https://t.co/ksxSscaNIR
National Park Service lags in hiring:
Of the 1,418 new workers the agency planned to add with money from the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, only 447 had been onboarded as of May 31, according to the Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General. https://t.co/k9dbriMtpB
In a race that remained too close to call Monday, Republican Jaime Herrera Beutler led a field of seven candidates vying to become Washington state’s next public lands commissioner. https://t.co/DPj3M1RQQe
Rep. Bruce Westerman issues subpoena in probe of migrant camp at N.Y. national park site: The House Natural Resources chair called it “a ramshackle, crime-ridden encampment” on public land. https://t.co/9nKn2UUIUJ
A campaign launched today urging President Biden to create a new national monument to honor Frances Perkins, the Labor secretary under President Franklin Roosevelt. The plan would preserve a 57-acre site along the Damariscotta River in Newcastle, Maine.
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Fort Ontario, a former military camp in New York that once housed Jewish refugees during World War II, could become a new national park site.
The National Park Service gave the green light to the plan in a long-awaited study. @NatlParkService https://t.co/i8DvSh44SO
Arizona would be home to a new national monument of nearly 400,000 acres, under a bill introduced today by the top Dem on the House Natural Resources Comm. Rep. Raúl Grijalva wants to designate the land as the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument. https://t.co/VLMg8fmNhT