Posted on 01/07/2025 1:55:01 PM PST by karpov
President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California, in part to honor two tribes, a person familiar with the decision said Monday.
The proclamation will create the Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park and the Sáttítla National Monument in Northern California, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans that were to be announced Tuesday in California.
The declaration bars drilling and mining and other development on the 600,000-acre (2,400-square-kilometer) area in Southern California and roughly 200,000 acres (800 square kilometers) in Northern California.
The establishment of new monuments were first reported in The Washington Post. Biden, who has two weeks left in office, is in New Orleans on Monday meeting with the families of the victims in the New Year’s attack in the French Quarter and was heading to California later Monday.
The flurry of activity has been in line with the Democratic president’s “America the Beautiful” initiative launched in 2021, aimed at honoring tribal heritage, meeting federal goals to conserve 30% of public lands and waters by 2030 and addressing climate change.
The Pit River Tribe has worked to get the federal government to designate the Sáttítla National Monument. A number of Native American tribes and environmental groups began pushing Biden to designate the Chuckwalla National Monument, named after the large desert lizard, at the start of 2023.
The area would protect public lands south of Joshua Tree National Park, spanning the Coachella Valley region in the west to near the Colorado River.
Advocates say the monument will protect a tribal cultural landscape, ensure access to nature for local residents and preserve military history sites.
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Biden wants to be buried in an Indian burial ground. He doesn’t realize he already has been.
IDGA# who it upsets...get it before a judge ASAP.
What nonsense.
At this point, I hope Trump rips up the arctic looking for oil.
Global warming. I’m freezing my ####s off on the mide atlantic coast.
How many years ago now did gore say we would never see snow again?
An equivalent to a square 125 miles by 125 miles, cannot be used for anything now, because some savage stone age throwback Luddites demand it.
Our country is blessed with great natural resources. Biden plans to make it illegal to use any of them.
What do the natives care? They have their casino$ and can sit on the land.
The democrats have to clear cut tree and build more Solyndra solar farms nationwide to make their donors and personal investments sound.
2 grifting tribes get paid off. Everyone else gets screwed ... again.
Biden is trapped in the Matrix and cannot get out.
Trump should immediately ban wind farms and solar farms from all federal waters and land. The destruction this ***hole is doing on his way out should be criminal.
He should send Chief Warren out to do the honor since she is an Honorary Injun.
It’s SO easy to spend our money.
An old fashioned, shallow, tax and spend democrat.
That’s right.
IIRC Clinton did this as he was leaving office with the Escalante national Monument in Utah. Within that territory is one of only two places in the world with the purist coal ; coal that is best for uses such as in dialysis. There is so much coal there that it was said that it could pay for all of the public education in Utah. I think that Bush2 made the footprint of what Clinton took out of production smaller but it’s still there.
Have any Republican presidents in the last century thrown fire bombs at the next president as they were leaving office? If so, I I don’t recall it
Beezlebubba was always such a class act, eh?
wow, thats a really small tribe.
i lived on the pit river in a pg&e camp as a little kid.
went to kindegarden with some pit kids.
im not aware of any military heritage in that area.
closest thing would be on modoc war with a military campaign sent after
Kintpuash, (captain jack), at the lava befs national monument near Tulelake , Ca..
lava beds national monument near Tulelake , Ca..
Joshua Tree is almost unusable at time already, Why? “Undocumented visitors.”
When George HW Bush left the White House they laminated his picture on all the desk tops. It used to be traditional to play practical jokes om the incoming administration, leave a letter for your successor, attend the incoming presidents inauguration, etc. Trump put a stop to all that stupid nonsense.
I go to Joshua Tree all the time. What are you talking about?
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