Protected areas south of Joshua Tree National Park and east of Mount Shasta cement conservation legacy in California.
President Biden on Tuesday Jan. 7, 2025 established the Sattitla Highlands National Monument over 224,000 acres of national forest land in the Medicine Lake Highlands and surrounding areas east of Mount Shasta near the California-Oregon border.
Both places are sacred to native tribes, who pushed for monument status, which limits logging, mining and other extractive uses, such as energy development. “For generations, my people have fought to protect Sáttítla, and today we celebrate the voices of our ancestors being heard,” said Yatch Bamford, Chairman of the Pit River Nation.Last summer, when the idea of a Sáttítla monument was first gaining momentum, Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Yuba City, whose district includes the area, said he was opposed because the designation would mean more regulations and limits on the land, which has been eyed for geothermal development.
“Solar development is off limits in so much of the desert,” said Shannon Eddy, executive director of the Large-Scale Solar Association, in Sacramento. “I understand their concern. But right now we don’t share that concern. We don’t think the monument is going to hamper solar development.”
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