After a Trump-dominated panel gave final approval to his arch project, a federal judge acted quickly to halt the beginning of construction. https://buff.ly/Mp2LNLM

 

On Thursday Trump used the Antiquities Act to declare the White House's Oval Office and adjacent Cabinet Room as Oval Office NMon, apparently to freeze their current configuration, including changes he has made, in place. (He did not extend the same concern to the East Wing, which he tore down and is rebuilding as a ballroom.) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/05/us/politics/trump-oval-office-national-monument.html

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Over vociferous objections from Indigenous people, Minnesota regulators voted to allow a controversial pipeline to reopen near Pipestone NMon. https://buff.ly/ulGlI5X

 

The likely new Democratic chair of a House committee overseeing NPs is vowing that Trump's diversion of USNPS funds to his pet DC projects will be coming to an end ... even as a federal commission is expected to give final approval to his arch project. https://buff.ly/A54RJfa (and see https://buff.ly/Mp2LNLM)

 

With the seismic shift towards Democrats in yesterday's US mid-term elections, the National Parks Conservation Association is looking ahead to better times under the new Congress. https://buff.ly/5ysSNvd

 

Parks Canada is facing steep cuts amid a general federal austerity push. https://buff.ly/cupiPPN

 

Greenpeace dropped huge blocks of stone from a vessel to the bottom of the ocean inside the UK's Southern North Sea MPA in a bid to stop bottom trawling. https://buff.ly/UbGyO75

 

Carter G. Woodson Home NHS — the home of the founder of Black History Month — is reopening for the first time since the pandemic after a full renovation. https://buff.ly/vktEYfw

 

As the annual — and so-far thwarted — negotiations for a possible Antarctic PA get underway, a famed marine scientist is calling for an end to krill harvesting in the seas around the continent. https://buff.ly/gqSqC65