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What national monument status means for one vast Montana landscape

Jun 22, 2017
The Upper Missouri River Breaks includes Native American sites, Old West settlements and tens of thousands of acres of privately owned land.
Rancher Matt Knox on his family land near Winifred, Montana. Knox is part of Missouri River Stewards, a group which wants the Trump Administration to reduce the size of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument and prevent further regulations on farms and ranches.
Dan Boyce

A new designation for the San Gabriel Mountains

Oct 10, 2014
President Barack Obama will declare it a national monument on Friday.