A great hike can leave a lasting impression, as one US congresswoman recently proved. Less than eight months after she hiked through Painted Canyon of Mecca Hills in California, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland's bid to grant the area National Monument status has been approved.
On Tuesday, January 7, the White House announced that President Biden had signed a proclamation creating the Chuckwalla National Monument in the desert just south of Joshua Tree National Park, as well as Sáttítla Highlands National Monument, a volcanic landscape in Northern California.
