U.S. President Joe Biden designated two California sites -- a swathe of desert significant to native tribes and a dormant volcano -- as national monuments on Tuesday, advancing his record of conserving more U.

President Joe Biden designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts from mining and energy

Biden has federally protected 1,053,125 square miles of land and ocean in his term — an area nearly four times the size of Texas.