https://archive.md/8bBZc
"WASHINGTON — President Biden on Tuesday will designate two new national
monuments in the Southwest, insulating from development a half million acres in
Nevada that are revered by Native Americans and 6,600 acres in Texas that were
once admired by the writer Jack Kerouac.
In southern Nevada, Mr. Biden will protect a large portion of the Spirit
Mountain area, encompassing some of the most biologically diverse and
culturally significant lands in the Mojave Desert. Near El Paso, Texas, he will
establish the Castner Range National Monument on a former artillery range along
rugged canyons and arroyos that rise out of the desert near the Franklin
Mountains.
The Spirit Mountain area, also known by the Mojave name Avi Kwa Ame, is the
largest such monument that Mr. Biden has designated to date, and only the
second national monument created specifically to protect Native history.
Avi Kwa Ame is considered the creation site for Yuman-speaking tribes like the
Fort Mojave, the Cocopah, the Quechan and the Hopi. Native tribes,
environmental groups and local and state leaders have been seeking the
designation for more than a decade.
Castner Range, located at the Army base Fort Bliss, served as a training and
testing site for the U.S. Army during World War II, the Korean War and the
Vietnam War until it closed in 1966. The range includes archaeological sites,
some prehistoric, that feature cave etchings made by Native Americans and stone
shelters built by ranchers more than a century ago. The terrain is filled with
Mexican yellow poppies, and serves as a habitat for the checkered whip tail
lizard, desert cottontail and Western desert tarantula."
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