Environmental groups are also petitioning Biden to protect S\u00e1tt\u00edtla, Kw\u2019ts\u00e1n and Chuckwalla in California<\/p>\n
Hidden amid a vast expanse of snow-brushed pines in northern California is a rare, half-million-year-old volcano called S\u00e1tt\u00edtla. Thousands of years ago, its flows created crystalline mountains of obsidian and dim grey bands of pumice rock, which from a bird\u2019s-eye view look like ripples of taffy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you\u2019re there, you really do feel like you\u2019re in another world, or on the moon or even another planet,\u201d said Brandi McDaniels, a member of the Pit River Tribe in northern California, whose ancestral homelands encompass the area. \u201cThe way it glistens and twinkles \u2013 deep black, but shiny like diamonds.\u201d<\/p>\n
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