A visit to Southern Nevada’s Avi Kwa Ame National Monument starts with a drive past wonders that could easily go undetected in a harsh, inhospitable landscape. An unremarkable desert expanse of ...

and he has alluded to the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument south of Las Vegas. Republicans have fought Democrats’ use of the Antiquities Act to create more national monuments, with Nevada ...

Jessica Hill and Alan Halaly, Tribune News Service For less than a year, the desert landscape and sacred mountains of Avi Kwa ...

Even if the land becomes a national monument ... It would also join Avi Kwa Ame, a stretch of biologically rich mountains and valleys in southern Nevada, and Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni, an ...

The Avi Kwa Ame National Monument will also be the largest single ... the Sloan Canyon recreation area in Nevada, and the Lake Mead national recreation areas in Arizona. The cohesion is good ...

Avi Kwa Ame National Monument was Biden's second designation. The site outside of Las Vegas is central to the creation stories of tribes with ties to the area. Republican Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo ...

Last year — thanks to President Joe Biden’s use of a 118-year-old law — Avi Kwa Ame joined the ranks of Tule Springs, Gold Butte, and Basin and Range as a national monument in Nevada.