Since 2022, President Joe Biden has used the Antiquities Act to create five national monuments, collectively spanning more than 1.5 million acres of federal land. While these proclamations are ostensibly aimed at preserving areas of historic or archaeological importance, they often come at the expense of established laws and local economies.
The American Forest Resource Council has rightly challenged this executive overreach by calling on the Supreme Court to review the Antiquities Act.
Council President Travis Joseph says many Americans are “concerned about implications of presidents having unfettered authority to indefinitely suspend or cancel the operation of federal law through the Antiquities Act proclamation.”
One such case challenges Biden’s 2021 expansion of the Bears Ears National Monument, led by Utah alongside individual recreationists and…
