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Local coalitions are urging the president to meet his administration’s conservation goals and fight the climate and biodiversity crises by creating new national monuments. But even some locals who want to see such lands saved don’t want them protected like that.
The move follows calls from tribal nations, Indigenous community leaders and others for the permanent protection of nearly 120,000 acres of important cultural and environmental land.