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BumRushDaShow

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Wed Jan 15, 2025, 07:00 AM Jan 15

Biden Announces 2 New National Monuments in California After Wildfires Scuttled Previous Event

Source: US News and World Report/AP

Jan. 14, 2025, at 7:13 p.m.


WASHINGTON (AP) — In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts from mining and energy development.

Biden made the designations at an event at the White House, a week after — and on the other side of the country from — how he'd originally planned to do so, with a speech in California's Eastern Coachella Valley.

The president landed in California on Jan. 6, but made it as far as Los Angeles before high winds — that helped spark the Los Angeles blazes — forced officials to scrap the event. It was a stark reminder that, even as Biden uses the last days of his administration to attempt to safeguard the environment, climate change is already helping to exacerbate natural disasters.

Instead, Biden spoke next to screens featuring towering peaks, desert vistas and an array of plant and animal life. “I was hoping we were going to do this in place," the president said. "This is as close as we could get."

Read more: https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2025-01-14/biden-announces-2-new-national-monuments-in-california-after-wildfires-scuttled-previous-event



Link to PROCLAMATIONS -

Proclamation on the Establishment of the Chuckwalla National Monument

Proclamation on the Establishment of the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument
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GregD

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1. Stttla Highlands National Monument
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 03:26 PM
Jan 15

Hello friends - I've not posted here in a long time, but I noticed that the above article was shared. I live in Mount Shasta (been here since 2005 when Shrub entered his 2nd term) and our community has been working toward this goal for many years.

Medicine Lake Highlands is this gorgeous area located east of McCloud, which is east of Mount Shasta. To learn more about that region, do a search on "Medicine Lake Highlands".

Instrumental in this effort was MSBEC, Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center:
https://www.facebook.com/mtshastaeco
https://mountshastaecology.org/

In December, representatives of President Biden's administration sent a team out to visit with us, and we largely filled the theater at our local community college (College of the Siskiyous).
https://www.facebook.com/mtshastaeco/posts/pfbid02eJwrjgDgSfk8f4ShCzAVrTxt2Geg8ox9ZXKPPscLqAHEZ2NpcbtmE3Gc7S9oAudjl

Learn more about that region here:
https://discoversiskiyou.com/activities/270/
https://www.tu.org/conservation/conservation-areas/watershed-restoration/permanent-protection-for-the-medicine-lake-highlands/

For anyone interested in supporting a small, local and effective environmental group, the folks at MSBEC are awesome and deeply devoted to their mission. https://mountshastaecology.org/donate/




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