Before leaving office, President Joe Biden could act on two bids for new national monuments in Northern California: one in the rugged Sierra Nevada south of Yosemite and another in the volcanic highlands northeast of Mount Shasta. Doubts are emerging, though, that Biden will offer the protective and prestigious status to either of the properties. Not only is time running out for the administration, but opposition to the initiatives has recently surfaced, shattering any notion that a proposed Range of Light Monument in the Sierra or Sáttítla National Monument near Shasta would be universally popular.