Sáttítla Highlands National Monument
On Jan. 14, 2025, President Biden announced the designation of the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in northern California. The monument encompasses 224,676 acres of varied habitat on the Modoc, Shasta-Trinity, and Klamath national forests and provides protection to tribal ancestral homelands, historic and scientific treasures, rare flora and fauna, and the headwaters of vital sources of…
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USDA Forest Service Managed National Monuments
Admiralty Island National Monument, Tongass National Forest, AlaskaBaaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, Kaibab National ForestBears Ears National Monument, Manti-La Sal National Forest, Utah (co-managed with the Bureau of Land Management)Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument, Mendocino National Forest, California (co-managed with the Bureau of…
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Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument
Mount St. Helens.
About This DestinationAt 8:32 Sunday morning, May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted, shaken by an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale, the north face of this tall symmetrical mountain collapsed in a massive rock debris avalanche. In a few moments this slab of rock…
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Misty Fjords National Monument
In 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed over 2,200,000 acres as the Misty Fjords National Monument. In 1980, this acreage got reduced to 2,142,243 acres but was now congressionally designated as Misty Fjords National Monument Wilderness and still remains the largest wilderness area on the Tongass National Forest. Due to this designation, it is now strategically managed to continue the…
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Chimney Rock National Monument
On Sept. 21, 2012, President Barack Obama designated the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area as America’s 103rd national monument—the seventh to be managed by the U.S. Forest Service. Covering 4,726 acres of the San Juan National Forest between Pagosa Springs and Durango, Colo., the Chimney Rock National Monument is a significant archaeological, cultural, geological and biological site.Home to…
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Bears Ears National Monument
The Bureau of Land Management is providing interim guidance regarding management of the Bears Ears National Monument. This interim monument management direction will provide direction on the stewardship of these lands during the public planning effort, pending approval of a monument management plan and…