Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska boxes: unspoiled wilderness, roaming wildlife, massive glaciers ...
The Alaska Legislature has passed a resolution urging President Donald Trump to reverse course and retain the name of North America’s tallest peak as Denali rather than change it to Mount McKinley.
Credit: Alan Musy - ADM PhotoGraphics / Getty Images Denali National Park and Preserve checks all of the Alaska boxes: unspoiled wilderness, roaming wildlife, massive glaciers and snow-covered peaks.
Alaska Natives and elected officials pushed Washington for decades to call the mountain Denali, as it had done with the national park in 1980. Objections by lawmakers from Ohio, McKinley’s home ...
Senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced a bill to formally change the name of North America's highest peak back to Denali ...
Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators have introduced legislation seeking to designate North America’s tallest peak as Denali ...
The name change reflected the traditions of Alaska Natives and the preference of many Alaskans, underscored by a push by state leaders decades earlier. The 20,310-foot (6,190-meter) mountain in Denali ...
An American flag flies at Denali National Park (NPS Photo/Ken Conger) The Alaska House of Representatives offered a rebuke Monday to President Donald Trump’s move to rename North America’s ...
Trump issued the order renaming Denali after President William McKinley on his first day back in office. The decision sparked ...
This past week, two resolutions were introduced in the Alaska Legislature to keep the name Denali. A view of what was then called Denali on Sept. 1, 2015, in Denali National Park, Alaska.
2, 2015, in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer, file) The bill introduced by Murkowski is cosponsored by Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, whose wife is Athabascan.