Republican legislators and the Trump Administration have launched a multi-pronged effort to cut back national monuments in ...

Theodore Roosevelt signed a law granting future U.S. Presidents the power to designate or expand National Monuments on existing federal land. Known as the Antiquities Act, the bill was introduced ...

The Antiquities Act of 1906 was proposed and signed into law by President Theodore Roosevelt. Since 1906, the act has been used more than 300 times by presidents from both parties to protect sites of ...

As a sickly young boy in New York City, Theodore Roosevelt learned taxidermy and ... existing number); signed the landmark Antiquities Act and used its special provisions to unilaterally create ...

Theodore Roosevelt was one of the biggest pioneers of the National Park system and created the Antiquities Act. As President from 1901 to 1909, he signed legislation establishing five new national ...

Theodore Roosevelt, an avid hunter ... Under the auspices of the Antiquities Act, he signed the Grand Canyon National Monument into being on January 11, 1908. It was the 11th such monument ...

On Jan. 6, 1919, former President Theodore Roosevelt died in ... On Jan. 11, 1908, Roosevelt leveraged the Antiquities Act of 1906 to proclaim the Grand Canyon as a national monument; it would ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt did in 1906 what Congress was unwilling to do through legislation: He used his new authority under the Antiquities Act to designate ...