On Friday, the White House announced that President Obama has named three new areas in the California desert to be designated as national monuments.

The amount of protected land in the U.S. has just grown by almost two million acres.
On Friday, the White House announced that President Obama has named three new areas in the California desert to be designated as national monuments. 
They include the Mojave Trails National Monument which spans 1.6 million acres, the Sand to Snow National Monument which covers 154,000 acres, and the Castle Mountains National Monument wh