Monumental Crisis: Saving America's Natural Landscapes

President Obama is creating national monuments at an unprecedented rate. Will that be enough to save America’s last best places?

- Doug Schnitzspahn

PRESIDENT OBAMA, you may have the most impressive conservation legacy of any POTUS since Jimmy Carter. Just this past August, you protected 87,500 acres in Maine with the stroke of a pen, adding to the more than 2 million acres that you’ve set aside in creating and expanding 25 national monuments—more than any other president.

The only problem? It’s not enough.