As tribes celebrate Nevada’s newest national monument, governor pans ‘confiscation’

Minutes after President Joe Biden confirmed the designation Tuesday of Avi Kwa Ame National Monument, which protects a culturally and ecologically significant swath of land that some area tribes consider their sacred cradle of humanity from development, Gov. Joe Lombardo issued a statement calling the monument status an economically unsound “federal confiscation” taken without consulting his office.