Oregon's Owyhee Canyonlands Is the Biggest Conservation Opportunity Left in the West. If Congress Won't Protect it, Should Biden Step in?

Local coalitions are urging the president to meet his administration’s conservation goals and fight the climate and biodiversity crises by creating new national monuments. But even some locals who want to see such lands saved don’t want them protected like that.

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