Biden Protects 848,000 Acres of Land in California

And a day after announcing a large area of offshore drilling bans, President Biden establishes hundreds of thousands of acres of land conservation in California. Biden announces that he will sign a proclamation to make the Chukwala and Satitla Highlands into national monuments. This will protect and preserve 848,000 acres of federal land. The White House says that President Biden has now conserved more lands and waters than any president in history, with a total of 674 million acres protected during his presidency. A statement says, since taking office, President Biden has swiftly advanced the most ambitious conservation agenda in U.S. history, setting and pursuing a bold goal to conserve at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. The Satitla Highlands National Monument is in Northern California and includes homelands of the Pit River Tribe and Medok people. It also includes a dormant volcano and has the longest known lava tube system in the world. The Chukwala National Monument is in Southern California and includes sacred sites of five groups of indigenous people and 50 rare species of plants and animals. Reporting in Washington, D.C., Jason Blair, NTD News.