President Biden on Tuesday signed proclamations establishing Chuckwala National Monument and Satitra Highlands National Monument, which will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of land in California during his final week in office.
The event was postponed a week due to the devastating wildfires raging in Southern California, and Biden revealed that he had originally wanted to hold the ceremony in the state but had to move it to the White House.
“We have been pursuing the most aggressive climate agenda in the history of the world,” the president said in the East Room of the White House before discussing national monuments. “Our natural wonders are the heart and soul of our nation.”
He said that in his second week as president, he signed an executive order “setting the first conservation goal to protect 30 percent of the lands and waters across the United States by 2030… I call this national movement America the Beautiful… Over the past four years, we have accomplished… to put America on track to achieve this bold goal, restore it, create new national monuments, protect hundreds of millions of acres of land and water across the United States, From New England to Minnesota, Texas to Colorado, Arizona, Alaska.
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Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday establishing Chakwala National Monument and Satitra Highlands National Monument in California. (Anna Rose Leyden/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
He added: “Over the past four years, I am proud to have fulfilled my promise to protect more land and water than any president in American history.”
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President Biden on Tuesday signed proclamations establishing Chakwala National Monument and Satitra Highlands National Monument, which will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of land in California during his final week in office. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
According to the National Parks Conservation Association, Chuckwala National Monument will protect more than 600,000 acres of public land in the California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and the Colorado River.
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On January 10, Biden listened to California officials brief him on the latest status of wildfires. (eigh Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Sattetra Highlands National Monument will protect more than 224,000 acres in Northern California’s Modoc, Shasta Trinity and Klamath National Forests and “provide tribal ancestral homes, historical and scientific treasures, and rare flora and fauna.” and providing protection at the source of “critical water sources,” according to the U.S. Forest Service.
