July 15th, 2026Heinrich Spotlights Legislation to Permanently Protect Caja del Rio, Criticizes Trump Admin Opposition to Caja del Rio Protection Act
past. This hearing, and next week’s National Parks legislative hearing, will add to our growing list
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June 24th, 2026Heinrich Questions Trump Nominees on Screwworm Mitigation Efforts, Funding International Conservation Programs, and Administrative Budget Cuts and Expenses
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks and William Hague, President Trump’s nominee to be Assistant … funding international conservation efforts, budget cuts to National Park Service, the Department of the Interior’s deep
June 23rd, 2026Heinrich Criticizes Trump for Delaying Nominating Officials to Key Roles at DOI and DOE, Selecting Underqualified Candidates to Lead Agencies
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, for working in their roles without being confirmed … experience with wildlife management or the national parks, prior to Secretary Burgum delegating these portfolios to them
June 17th, 2026Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Advances Bipartisan America the Beautiful Act
Angus King (I-Maine) to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund. The Committee also … long-overdue legislation forward to reauthorize the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund and continue investing
Heinrich, Luján Demand Answers from Secretary Burgum on Taxpayer Dollars Being Redirected to Pay for Trump’s Vanity Projects
dollars from fees paid to the National Park Service (NPS) to fund President Trump’s vanity projects … Mexico sites such as Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Bandelier National Monument. “Visitors to our national parks contribute
June 15th, 2026Heinrich, Luján Demand Answers from Secretary Burgum on Taxpayer Dollars Being Redirected to Pay for Trump’s Vanity Projects
dollars from fees paid to the National Park Service (NPS) to fund President Trump’s vanity projects … Mexico sites such as Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Bandelier National Monument. “Visitors to our national parks contribute
June 12th, 2026Heinrich Introduces Bipartisan Resolution Designating June 12 as National Service and Conservation Corps Day
young people, our communities, and our parks.” The full text of the resolution is here
June 10th, 2026Heinrich Calls for Consideration of Conservation Bills, Bipartisan Cooperation on ENR Legislation
Jefferson College as affiliated areas of the National Park System. I have no objection to Senator Hyde Smith … School as an affiliated area of the National Park System. The future Supreme Court Justice received his elementary
June 4th, 2026Heinrich Releases Statement Ahead of Oil and Gas Lease Sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
never involves drilling in America’s national parks or America’s national wildlife refuges. Don’t bid.” VIDEO … Management Plans (RMPs), putting public lands and National Parks at risk from mining companies
Luján, Matsui Introduce Legislation to Expand Digital Opportunity, Inclusion, and Literacy
Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Park Service (NPS), and provide a mechanism to leverage public
Heinrich Presses Secretary Burgum on Staffing Cuts at Interior, Slow-Walking of Permits for Clean Energy Projects
take it, but we determined, with a park superintendent that you're essential. Sorry, you can't take … comms, how many people actually worked in a park? There [were] no IT systems. Turns
ICYMI: Heinrich to Secretary Burgum on Interior Budget Request: “This Budget Would Decimate the Management of Our National Parks and Monuments”
Interior’s draconian staff cuts at the National Park Service, and purposefully slow-walking clean energy project approvals … proposing a budget that decimates our national parks and monuments, devalues our nation’s Tribes and wildlife
N.M. Delegation Denounces Trump Admin’s Reckless Race to Allow Drilling in Chaco Canyon
kept public lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park off-limits to new oil and gas leasing. Earlier … mile buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park (CCNHP). The expedited procedures that this Department is employing
Heinrich Takes to Senate Floor to Object Legislation that Erases History of Farm Labor Movement, Silences Survivors of Cesar Chavez’s Violence
Cesar Chavez National Monument and requiring the National Park Service to consult with all who are part … entire farmworker movement. After doing so, the National Park Service would consider what sites and properties are appropriate
April 9th, 2026Source New Mexico: New Mexico officials, tribal leaders vow to oppose slate of federal actions on public lands
drillingaround Chaco Culture National Historical Park,and announceda reversal on a mining ban in the Upper Pecos headwaters
Washington Post: Trump wants to remake the way we fight wildfires. The stakes couldn’t be higher.
department’s Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office
April 2nd, 2026N.M. Delegation Responds to Trump Administration’s New Actions to Undo Protections for the Greater Chaco Region
kept public lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park off-limits to new development. Yesterday, the Trump administration … sacred landscape surrounding the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The legislation was led by Luján
N.M. Delegation Responds to Trump Administration’s New Actions to Undo Protections for the Greater Chaco Region
kept public lands surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park off-limits to new development. Yesterday, the Trump administration … sacred landscape surrounding the Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The legislation was led by Luján
Source New Mexico: New Mexico officials, tribes accuse feds of rushing to reverse Chaco Canyon drilling ban
drilling around Chaco Culture National Historical Park by only allowing a week for limited public comment. The Trump
March 26th, 2026Heinrich, Sheehy Reintroduce Legislation to Scale Up Locally Led Big Game Migration Initiatives
Charitable Trusts, Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever, National Parks Conservation Association, New Mexico Wildlife Federation, North American Grouse … wildlife.” “Private landowners living next to national parks and other public lands are crucial partners in wildlife conservation
March 18th, 2026Ranking Members Heinrich, King Lead Bicameral Amicus Brief Challenging Trump’s Plans for Illegal Monument on National Park Service Land
Ranking Member of the Senate Subcommittee on National Parks, joined lawmakers in filing an amicus brief that would … clear: Any structure on federal parks or public grounds in the nation's capital must be approved
KUNM: NM's Sen. Heinrich, others decry 'erasure' of U.S. history
depictions that might be unflattering removed from national parks and public lands. That led U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich … According to alawsuitobjecting to the actions, National Park Service staff were instructed to tell visitors who inquired that
New York Times: What Displays Get Scrapped at America’s Parks? It Looks Like Anyone’s Guess.
order to remove or hide information at parks and other sites that might “disparage Americans,” internal records show … keep. An exhibit at Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming about the massacre of Blackfeet Native Americans
March 12th, 2026ICYMI: Senate Democrats Sound Off on Trump Administration Erasing History on Public Lands
efforts to erase history on America’s national parks. U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Ranking Member … Member of the U.S. Energy Subcommittee on National Parks, and U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), Member
March 11th, 2026Heinrich on Senate Floor: President Trump is dumbing down our history and cheapening our National Parks. But he will not take our history from us.
efforts to erase history at America’s national parks WASHINGTON— Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich … signage referencing the nation’s history from National Parks Service (NPS) sites. U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley