President Joe Biden is expected to announce two new national monuments on tribal land in California within a few days — one of several actions meant to limit drilling taken just before President-elect Donald Trump enters office.
One of the national monuments will be the around 644,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park. The second monument will be the approximately 200,000-acre Sáttítla National Monument in Northern California, The Washington Post reported.
The two sites would be protected from new drilling, mining, and logging, as several indigenous peoples consider these areas sacred ancestral homeland. Tribes have fought against gold mining and mining exploration in Chuckwalla. The region is also home to bighorn sheep, deer, wild burros, and snakes.
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