President Biden will travel to California to announce the creation of a national monument south of Joshua Tree National Park, protecting land from energy and industrial activities.
President Joe Biden will fly to Los Angeles on Monday then travel to the Coachella Valley in Riverside County, to reportedly announce the creation of a national monument south of Joshua Tree National Park.
Biden and first lady Jill Biden are scheduled on Monday to first travel to New Orleans, where they are expected to meet with 'families and community members impacted' by the New Year's terror attack on Bourbon Street that left 15 people dead and dozens more injured, according to the White House.The Bidens will travel to Los Angeles later Monday, then the president will visit the eastern Coachella Valley on Tuesday, the White House announced. No specifics about the trip were immediately provided.The Washington Post on Thursday reported that Biden is preparing to sign a proclamation that would establish a Chuckwalla National Monument south of Joshua Tree National Park, making drilling, mining and other energy- and industrial-related activity illegal in the area. The paper reported that Biden will also make a similar proclamation for land surrounding the Sáttítla National Monument in Northern California.Having previously advocated in Washington, D.C., for Biden to issue such a designation, Southern California tribal leaders spoke in October about their desire to protect the homelands of the Iviatim, Nüwü, Pipa Aha Macav, Kwatsáan and Maara'yam peoples, also known as the Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Mohave (CRIT Mohave), Quechan and Serrano nations.'Since time immemorial, we have called the lands in the proposed Chuckwalla National Monument home,' said Secretary Altrena Santillanes of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. 'These lands contain thousands of cultural places and objects of vital importance to the history and identity of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians.'The tribal leaders proposed a monument that would encompass approximately 627,000 acres of public lands, as well as protect approximately 17,000 additional acres in the Eagle Mountain
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