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The Center for Western Priorities is excited to share a new podcast episode about the Indigenous-led effort to protect the proposed Kw’tsán National Monument, an almost 400,000-acre landscape of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe's homelands in Southern California.
Part of our Road to 30: Postcards campaign aimed at sharing the stories of the people behind efforts to protect special places, the podcast episode features a Tribal elder, a Tribal youth, and one of the leaders of the monument proposal to talk about why it’s important to protect this desert region that is threatened by mining exploration, natural resource extraction, harmful development, unregulated recreational use, and climate change.
If President Joe Biden designates the proposed K'wtsán National Monument, he would secure the achievement of protecting the most public land using the Antiquities Act of any recent president in their first term. Further, if Biden designates both Kw'tsán and Chuckwalla national monuments, the areas would connect a greater cultural landscape extending all the way to Avi Kwa Ame National Monument in Nevada.
Happy National Public Lands Day!
Saturday is National Public Lands Day, an annual event to celebrate the vitality of America's public lands. It's also the nation's largest single-day volunteer effort. Celebrate by finding a volunteer opportunity on your public lands, or by enjoying free admission to all national parks for the day.
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We literally have footprints and writings of our ancestors in this area, and we look at it as parts of our history book.”
