Join the Sierra Club’s Our Wild America Campaign, the Fort Mohave Tribe, and the public, to speak in support of the Joshua Tree Forests of Southern Nevada and the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is hosting a community meeting November 17, 2022,  near the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. BLM Director, Tracy Stone-Manning, and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals, Laura Daniel-Davis will participate in the meeting as part of the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to support locally led efforts across the country to conserve important places. The community meeting responds to local, county, state, and Tribal resolutions, as well as pending legislation in Congress, calling for the protection of the Avi Kwa Ame (Spirit Mountain) landscape as a national monument to be managed by the BLM.   

We have budget to offer some gas reimbursement should you need it. Please contact Organizer Christian Gerlach at Christian.Gerlach@sierraclub.org or 702-271-6485 to see what is available.

More about Avi Kwa Ame:

The proposed Avi Kwa Ame (Spirit Mountain) National Monument is a proposal to establish a new national monument on roughly 450,000 acres of public land in southern Clark County. The lands would be managed to conserve their outstanding ecological, cultural, recreational, scenic, and other values and would be preserved for the benefit and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Spirit Mountain, which is called Avi Kwa Ame by the Mojave Tribe, is of the utmost cultural and religious significance. For the Yuman tribes, like the Mojave, Hualapai, Yavapai, Havasupai, Quechan, Maricopa, Pai Pai, Halchidhoma, Cocopah, and Kumeyaay, the area is tied to their creation, cosmology, and well-being. Avi Kwa Ame was designated a Traditional Cultural Property on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 in recognition of its religious and cultural importance.

The proposed monument is a hotspot of botanical diversity, providing habitat for a wide range of plant and animal diversity, including many species found nowhere else on Earth. The Joshua Tree forests within the proposed monument are among the most significant ones on the planet. The proposed monument includes the eastern edge of the world’s largest Joshua tree forest, which is home to some of the oldest and largest Joshua trees in existence. The oldest of these ancient wonders have survived for over 900 years.

If you cannot join us please help us by signing our petition to protect the proposed Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. 

And if you feel passionate about protecting this beautiful area, please help us by writing a letter to the editor urging President Biden Protect the area. Here is our Letter to the editor guide.

Again, please RSVP to come speak up and help us protect Avi Kwa Ame.