WATCH LIVE: President Biden has landed in Colorado to visit Camp Hale.
After speaking with the governor and other prominent Democrats for a few minutes, presidential staffers ushered Biden into a black Chevy Suburban, part of the motorcade that will bring him southeast to Camp Hale, approximately 45 miles away.Within minutes of landing, Biden threw his arm around Gov. Jared Polis’ shoulder and shared a few laughs with the governor, Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, Rep. Joe Neguse and Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack.
The president invoked the Antiquities Act Wednesday morning to designate nearly 54,000 acres of high country near Leadville and Vail as the Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument. The designation aims to protect and preserve the training ground for the legendary 10th Mountain Division in World War II. Those troops both helped turn the tide of the war and returned to launch Colorado’s ski industry.
In addition to the national monument designation, Biden will also announce a two-year prohibition on new mining and federal mineral leases on nearly 225,000 acres in the Thompson Divide area. The area has been closed to oil and gas leasing for several years, according to the White House. Pre-existing leases will not be affected. The prohibition will be the start of a Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service-led process looking at a 20-year prohibition in the area.
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