national monuments

Biden creates 2 new national monuments, setting a conservation record

The White House says President Biden has now protected a total of 674 million acres of lands and waters — a record for any administration. This includes two new national monuments in California.

Biden creates a new national monument marking the legacy of Indian boarding schools

The new monument will be in Carlisle, Pa., on what was the campus of a school where about 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent for assimilation between 1879 to 1918.