The 450,000-acre Avi Kwa Ame National Monument will protect sacred Native American sites and wildlife.
President 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 Native American tribes and rich with big horn sheep, Joshua tree forests, desert tortoises, ancient petroglyphs and other unique features.
The largest national monument that Biden has established so far during his presidency, the area will be named the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, which in the Mojave language means “Spirit Mountain.” More than 20 tribes, including the Hopi, Paiute and Mojave, along with tourism and environmental leaders and the Nevada Legislature, have pushed for the monument, as have the leaders of local towns like Searchlight.
Nearly every president has used the law to establish monuments, which in many cases Congress has eventually upgraded to national parks. Roosevelt used it to set aside the Grand Canyon, and also Pinnacles in San Benito County; Herbert Hoover used it to protect Arches in Utah and Death Valley in California; President Clinton set aside Sequoia National Monument and President George W.
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.
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