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Latest top headlines • 15 May 2026
A group of over 150 scientists has sent a letter to Congress calling on it to halt efforts to jettison Grand Staircase-Escalante NMon's management plan. https://buff.ly/UfTeD
Trump has selected an existing park site in DC for his "Garden of American Heroes." https://buff.ly/gO5Q88h
Reports are circulating that the so-called Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention camp inside Big Cypress NPres will be closing next month. https://buff.ly/KUQwCCv
A new study finds that marine life on the seabed of a Scottish MPA has rebounded a decade after a bottom-trawling ban was instituted. https://buff.ly/y9943jP
At a budget hearing Democrats pressed Burgum on how the administration justifies broad cuts to USNPS while asking for billions for projects in DC. https://buff.ly/O74Vgrg
DOI is being sued over failing to provide documents related to its reported involvement with Freedom 250, a Trump-backed private initiative that is separate from the official, congressionally authorized 250th celebration. https://buff.ly/zHg8Wug
Preservationists are suing to stop Trump's latest DC project: a "makeover" of the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. https://buff.ly/ITpIJBW
Trump has finalized the repeal of USBLM's Public Lands Rule, a Biden-era attempt to elevate the role of conservation in BLM, which traditionally has been weighted toward O&G drilling and grazing. https://buff.ly/h54GXjC
An NPR story shows how the current turmoil in USNPS is negatively affecting scientists' work with the critically endangered Devils Hole pupfish in Death Valley NP. https://buff.ly/AvL1OdS
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