450,000-acre Avi Kwa Ame National Monument will protect sacred Native American sites, wildlife
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he will establish a new national monument across a vast landscape on southern Nevada’s border with California to protect an area sacred to 12 Native American tribes and rich with big horn sheep, Joshua tree forests, desert tortoises, ancient petroglyphs and other unique features.
“Look, there’s so much more, there’s so much more that we’re going to do to protect the treasured tribal lands,” Biden told a group of tribal leaders at the White House Wednesday for a tribal nations summit. “When it comes to Spirit Mountain and surrounding ridges and canyons in southern Nevada, I’m committed to protecting this sacred place that is central to the creation story of so many tribes that are here today.
Under the 1906 Antiquities Act, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt to reduce looting and theft of Indian pottery and other artifacts in New Mexico and other areas, presidents can establish national monuments by proclamation, without approval from Congress. Tribal leaders and other supporters testified two weeks ago at a federal hearing in Laughlin, Nevada, and pushed for the full boundaries they support, without carve-outs for development.President Joe Biden on Wednesday Nov. 30, 2022 announced he will establish a new national monument in Southern Nevada along the California border called the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, home to big horn sheep and other wildlife.
There are no solar or wind farms operating now within the Nevada monument’s expected boundaries. A large wind farm sits nearby. Plans for another within the boundaries were rejected during the Trump administration. A Swedish company proposing the plans, Eolus Vind AB, has resubmitted them, but Biden administration officials have not made them a priority.
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