After six years of legal work, a small but meaningful victory has halted a plan to massively expand Daneros uranium mine, near Bears Ears National Monument. On my first day at the Grand Canyon Trust ...

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Politicians and Washington D.C. insiders are attacking our national monuments. They’re working to remove protections from important cultural landscapes designated as national monuments, open them up ...

FLAGSTAFF, AZ — The Grand Canyon Trust opposes the U.S. Department of the Interior’s review of national monuments. On February 3, 2025, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum issued Secretarial Order ...

Morefield Campground is located in a small valley with scattered groves of Gambel oaks, juniper trees, rabbitbrush, sage, and native grasses. Campsites are tucked into openings between the Gambel oak ...

4.7 million visitors to Grand Canyon National Park spent $768 million in nearby communities, which supported 10,100 jobs, $350 million in labor income, and $1 billion in economic output. Downoald the ...

Uranium trucks are passing through Arizona, Utah, and the Navajo Nation despite strong opposition. If you’re driving to or from the Grand Canyon’s south entrance and you pass a tractor trailer that ...

Dr. Laura Crossey explains what scientists know about groundwater in the Grand Canyon region. Dr. Laura Crossey: The Grand Canyon is like a layer cake and some of the layers are these beautiful ...

The Information Lab analyzed data from annual aquifer protection reports submitted by the owner of Canyon Mine (also known as Pinyon Plain Mine), a contested uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, and ...

Since late 2016, more than 66 million gallons of groundwater have been pumped out of a controversial uranium mine, Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine), near Grand Canyon National Park. The water ...

Grab your binoculars and help us spot pinyon jays! Pinyon jays — blue birds about the size of robins — live in pinyon and juniper forests across the Colorado Plateau. The birds and the trees are ...

Pumped storage hydropower dam proposals and past coal mining threaten Black Mesa, on the Navajo Nation, as you can see on this map. Maps and graphs may be used for non-commercial purposes provided ...