President Joe Biden will travel to the Coachella Valley on Tuesday, to announce the creation of a national monument south of Joshua Tree National Park, according to media reports.

Tribes, federal, state and local officials, conservation groups and the public supported protecting 600,000-plus acres of fragile desert forever. Biden will do so before leaving office.

President Biden will dedicate two new national monuments protecting tribal lands in California on Tuesday, two sources with knowledge confirmed to The Hill. Biden will designate the Chuckwalla

The Chuckwalla and Sáttítla national monuments would safeguard landscapes that Native American tribes have revered for thousands of years.

As he nears the end of his time in office, President Joe Biden is leaving a legacy in California, where he will create two new national monuments, the Washington Post reports. At the urging of tribal representatives,

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The designations will protect nearly 850,000 acres in the lake-dotted forests in far Northern California and arid desert lands in Southern California near Joshua Tree.

In the closing days of his administration, Biden plans to travel to California to dedicate the Chuckwalla National Monument, sources said.

The move would come just weeks before President-elect Donald Trump — who has criticized some monuments as too expansive — takes office.