Doubts are growing about whether President Joe Biden will act on bids for new national monuments in northern California before he leaves office in January.

Time is not only running out for him to make a move to offer protective status for the sites, one of which is in the Sierra Nevada south of Yosemite National Park and the other in the volcanic highlands northeast of Mount Shasta, but opposition to the projects is growing, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.

President-elect Donald Trump’s return to Washington also could stop the plans for the Range of Light Monument in the Sierra Nevada or Sáttítla National Monument near Shasta. 

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