U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced Friday in Las Vegas that the newly designated Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in southern Nevada marks a new era of conservation.
to permanently protect the desert mountain region considered sacred by some tribes.
The area stretches more than 500,000 acres in southern Nevada and includes Spirit Mountain, a peak northwest of Laughlin called Avi Kwa Ame by the Fort Mojave Tribe and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Titus, in her remarks at the private Las Vegas event, described Avi Kwa Ame as a crown jewel."It just doesn't get any better than that," she said."So we celebrate today on this gorgeous southern Nevada day all the things that Avi Kwa Ame means to the tribes."of Avi Kwa Ame's national monument designation to persuade the the Biden administration to create similar protections for areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon, which they also consider sacred.
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