Biden signed proclamations designating a monument in Southern California's and another in far northern California.

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.

With less than two weeks left in his presidency, President Joe Biden designated two new national monuments in the West. Biden signed proclamations Tuesday creating the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, both in California, covering 848,000 acres of land.

Biden has federally protected 1,053,125 square miles of land and ocean in his term — an area nearly four times the size of Texas.

President Joe Biden officially announced the creation of a national monument south of Joshua Tree National Park today. The Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California creates the largest corridor of protected lands in the continental United States,

President Joe Biden is signing a proclamation to establish two new national monuments in California, in part to honor two tribes.

Dangerously high winds have forced President Joe Biden to cancel a trip to the Eastern Coachella Valley to announce the creation of two new national monuments.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland pushed for the new National Monument after hiking in this desert landscape last year

Chuckwalla National Monument is a cornerstone in a vast network of protected landscapes across the Southwest. Stretching from Joshua Tree to the Grand Canyon to Bears Ears, this corridor forms the largest swath of protected lands in the continental U.

President Biden during his last week in office designated two national monuments, which will protect hundreds of thousands of acres of public land in California.