President Biden signed proclamations Tuesday during his final week in office to establish Chuckwalla National Monument and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, which will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of California land.
The event was postponed for a week due to the devastating consequences wildfires rage in Southern California, and Biden revealed that he had wanted to do the ceremony in the state, but it had to be moved to the White House.
“We have implemented the most aggressive climate agenda ever 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 “establishing the first-ever conservation goal to protect 30% of all our lands and waters across America by 2030…I call this national campaign America the Beautiful…And the past four years we delivered…putting America on track to achieve that audacious goal, restoring it, creating new national monuments, conserving hundreds of millions of acres of land and waters across America, from New England to Minnesota, Texas to Colorado, Arizona, Alaska.”
Biden signed a proclamation on Tuesday to establish Chuckwalla National Monument and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in California. (Anna Rose Layden/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.”
President Biden signed proclamations on Tuesday during his final week in office establishing the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, which will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of land in California. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
Chuckwalla 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, according to the National Parks Conservation Association.
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Biden listens as California officials brief him on the wildfires on January 10. (eight Vogel/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Sáttítla Highlands National Monument will protect more than 224,000 acres of Northern California lands in the Modoc, Shasta-Trinity and Klamath national forests and “provide protection for tribes’ ancestral homelands, historical and scientific treasures, rare flora and fauna and the headwaters of vital water sources,” according to the US Forest Service.
