President Biden's designation protects more than 224,000 acres of volcanic forest habitat, including a dormant volcano and a massive underground aquifer system.

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.

A large swath of far Northern California has been established as one of California’s newest national monuments on Tuesday following a proclamation by President Biden, according to the White House. During an announcement on Tuesday in the Eastern Coachella Valley,