President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated a swath of West Texas desert as a national monument, a move that protects the land from future development.
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Before the Army used the land, Castner Range was home to the Apache and Pueblo peoples, the Comanche Nation, Hopi Tribe and the Kiowa Indian Tribe of Oklahoma, according to the White House. President Biden is naming Castner Range, a former military training and testing site just outside El Paso, a new national monument.
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