WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has announced the creation of two California national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts from mining and energy development. The designations on Tuesday came a week after he originally planned to do it, and on the other side of the country. The original event was supposed to be a speech in California’s Eastern Coachella Valley but ended up being at the White House after deadly wildfires postponed it. Biden created the Chuckwalla National Monument, in Southern California near Joshua Tree National Park, and the Sáttítla National Monument, in Northern California.
