Avi Kwa Ame, a sacred Indigenous site, will become the biggest protected area of Biden's presidency so far.
in Mojave — off limits to development under the 1906 Antiquities Act, the two individuals said.
in November. “And I look forward to being able to visit Spirit Mountain and experience it with you as soon as I can.”The proclamation could put roughly 450,000 acres — spanning almost the entire triangle at the bottom of the Nevada map — off limits to mining and other kinds of development. Rep. Dina Titus introduced a bill last year that proposed protecting 443,671 acres around the site, which the Fort Mojave and 11 other tribes consider sacred.
The monument map, as it has been drawn by a tribal coalition, would prevent renewable energy projects from breaking ground there. During negotiations over the monument last year, some renewable energy advocates warned the site could undercut Biden’s ambitious goals for deploying more wind and solar power.
But officials with the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management stressed that clean-energy firms would still be able to access electric transmission lines under any monument designation. BLM has already designated more than 9 million acres of its land in the state for potential large-scale solar development, and another 16.8 million acres for possible wind energy projects.
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