President Biden designated Avi Kwa Ame, also known as Spirit Mountain – a mountainous area in Nevada that’s revered by many tribes – as a national monument in March 2023.
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NOEL KING, HOST: The Public Lands Agency oversees 245 million acres and a lot of energy development. President Biden s pick to lead that agency has moved one step closer to being confirmed despite strong Republican opposition. Colorado Public Radio s Caitlyn Kim is following this one.
CAITLYN KIM, BYLINE: Tracy Stone Manning, who currently works for the National Wildlife Federation, has come under fire for her ties to a radical environmental group when she was a graduate student in 1989. She sent a letter warning that spikes had been put into trees in a national forest in Idaho. It s a tactic radical environmental groups used to stop logging and could potentially injure loggers. She testified against the men who spiked the trees. Senators debated what that means in a committee hearing yesterday.