President Joe Biden plans to create two new national monuments in California in the coming days, according to two people briefed on the announcement, aiming to cement his environmental legacy before President-elect Donald Trump takes office. … Biden will sign a proclamation establishing the roughly 644,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park, the people said. … The president also will sign a proclamation creating the roughly 200,000-acre Sáttítla National Monument in Northern California near the Oregon border, the people said. The Pit River Tribe has spearheaded the campaign to protect that area from energy development. … The Sáttítla National Monument, meanwhile, would encompass an area known as the Medicine Lake Highlands northeast of the Mount Shasta volcano. The area is often called the headwaters of California because of its crucial role in supplying clean water from volcanic aquifers to communities across the state, including farms downstream.

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