President Biden is expected to designate two new national monuments in California this week, which will bar roughly 850,000 acres of tribal lands from future development.
After signing the new orders, Biden will have shut down development on more public lands than any other president in history besides former President Jimmy Carter, according to the Washington Post.
The move would establish a 644,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument located in the southern part of the state near Joshua Tree National Park...