Look West: Public lands and energy news from the Center for Western Priorities


** Biden plans to protect Avi Kwa Ame next week
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Rock formations near Spirit Mountain, Center for Western Priorities

President Joe Biden is planning a trip to Las Vegas next week, where he is expected ([link removed]) to designate Avi Kwa Ame as a national monument. Biden pledged to protect ([link removed]) the site almost 100 days ago at the White House Tribal Nations Summit.

The proposed monument is a 450,000-acre area in southern Nevada that includes a 5,600-foot peak ([link removed]) called Avi Kwa Ame, or Spirit Mountain. Avi Kwa Ame is the ancestral home of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe and holds major significance for other tribes in the region. The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe has asked the president to protect the area.

“The lands of the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument are very important to the Mojave people and the nine other Yuman tribes whose creation story begins in this sacred area. Avi Kwa Ame is where we come from, it is where we were created and placed here to protect, it is our Ancestral homelands,” said ([link removed]) Fort Mojave Indian Tribe Chairman Timothy Williams.

To learn more about the proposed Avi Kwa Ame monument, watch the Center for Western Priorities' short film ([link removed]) . The film is part of our Road to 30: Postcards ([link removed]) campaign to share the stories of people working to protect special places across the country
Quick hits


** Biden plans to designate Avi Kwa Ame on Las Vegas trip
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Nevada Independent ([link removed]) | Las Vegas Review-Journal ([link removed])


** Feds suspend measures meant to boost Lake Powell levels
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CNN ([link removed])


** First Yellowstone bear sighted out of hibernation in park
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Billings Gazette ([link removed]) | Yellowstone Public Radio ([link removed]) | Daily Montanan ([link removed])


** Increasingly large wildfires hinder Western forest regrowth
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Inside Climate News ([link removed])


** Bison carcasses cleaned up outside Yellowstone following heavy winter of hunting
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Billings Gazette ([link removed])


** Opinion: Is environmental justice momentum slowing?
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The Hill ([link removed])


** Hunters pan legislative inaction, call for citizen response on corner crossing
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WyoFile ([link removed]) | Fence Post ([link removed])


** Denver oil company sues to overturn order, sanctions by Colorado
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Denver Post ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” Our natural infrastructure—like the trees, streams and coastlines that surround us—is just as in need of investment and care as our built infrastructure. Protecting access to nature, waterways, as well as a clean and healthy ocean is a part of environmental justice.”
—Shanna Edberg ([link removed]) , director of conservation programs at the Hispanic Access Foundation
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** @YellowstoneNPS ([link removed])
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(News Release) On Tuesday, March 7, a Yellowstone National Park wildlife biologist on a radio telemetry flight observed the first grizzly bear of 2023 to emerge from hibernation. Learn more: [link removed] ([link removed])

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