Laughlin Town Advisory Board Chair Kathy Ochs speaks about the bill to designate Avi Kwa Ame, the Mojave name for Spirit Mountain and its surrounding landscape, as Nevada's newest National Monument during a news conference at Springs Preserve on Jan. 14, 2022, in Las Vegas. (L.E. Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

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National monument proposed for Nevada site sacred to tribes

The site would be called Avi Kwa Ame National Monument and encompass a rugged and dry mostly undeveloped landscape.

• By By Ken Ritter Associated Press
• January 16, 2022