SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. (CN) — More than 100,000 years ago, the massive Medicine Lake Volcano formed a caldera in the Cascade Mountains in Northern California. More than 10 times the size of Mount St. Helens, it features some of the freshest water and darkest skies in the Golden State.
One of former President Joe Biden’s last official acts was to designate a protected area here, the nearly 225,000-acre Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in California’s Siskiyou County. But now, this national monument is once again under threat from development, as the Trump administration floats the prospect of rescinding its protected status.
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