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** What's next after Camp Hale?
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Wednesday, October 19, 2022
The Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas in 1959, Blackwell School Alliance ([link removed])

After President Biden's trip to designate Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument ([link removed]) in Colorado, momentum is building for more land and cultural protections ([link removed]) across the country. President Biden on Tuesday signed a bill creating a national historic site at the Blackwell School ([link removed]) in Marfa, Texas. The site was a segregated school for children of Mexican descent from 1906 to 1965, when schools were integrated.

Also this week, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla sent a letter to President Biden encouraging him to use the Antiquities Act to expand Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument ([link removed]) in California. The expansion would include the nearby "Walker Ridge," which stakeholders want to see renamed “Condor Ridge,” or “Molok Luyuk” in the Patwin language of local Indigenous tribes. The letter to President Biden was co-signed by eight more members of the California congressional delegation.

The effort to expand Berryessa Snow Mountain joins a growing list of potential new national monuments ([link removed]) , including Avi Kwa Ame ([link removed]) in Nevada and Castner Range ([link removed]) in Texas.

The latest episode of CWP's podcast, The Landscape ([link removed]) , is a deep dive into what makes national monuments special, and occasionally controversial. Aaron and Kate talk to author McKenzie Long about her new book, This Contested Land: The Storied Past and Uncertain Future of America’s National Monuments ([link removed]) . Long traveled to 13 national monuments across the country to write the book.
Quick hits


** Biden administration announces first wind sale off California
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CNN ([link removed])


** Texas school designated as National Historic Site
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El Paso Times ([link removed]) | The Hill ([link removed]) | National Parks Traveler ([link removed])


** After Trump, wildlife crossings along the border keep narrowing
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High Country News ([link removed])


** Permian oil production forecast to hit record high in November
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Reuters ([link removed])


** Melting glaciers spark a salt-licking war between native sheep and invasive goats
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CPR News ([link removed])


** As public lands hunting grows in popularity, some areas get overcrowded
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Boise State Public Radio ([link removed])


** Editorial: Haaland's healing tour is just part of needed steps
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Bismarck Tribune ([link removed])


** An Oregon conservationist's wishlist for better collaboration with BLM
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Jefferson Public Radio ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” As a nation, we must face the wrongs of our past in order to build a more just and equitable future. The ugliness of the segregation era had many impacts that we have failed as a nation to adequately acknowledge. This new designation will help us tell a truer American story, and ensure this important and painful chapter in our nation’s history is preserved and remembered for the generations to come.”
—Interior Secretary Deb Haaland ([link removed])
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We're fall-ing for the foliage in our states! 😍🍂

Some of our northern states have reached peak colors, while the southern states still have a few more weeks to go.

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