Up to 120 million acres of our public lands could be available for sale. If that happens, hunting, camping, birdwatching, and hiking opportunities would be lost forever.

FLAGSTAFF, AZ — From now until April 14, 2025, the Grand Canyon Regional Intertribal Intergenerational Stewardship Expedition (RIISE) is accepting applications from young people ages 16-20 who ...

Protect all National Monuments petition. National Monuments Petition. Politicians and Washington D.C. insiders are attacking our national monuments. They’re working to remove protections from ...

Few things unite Utahns like their support for their national public lands. New Utah poll on national monuments. A December 2024 poll of 500 registered voters in the beehive state by Republican public ...

Canyon Mine, renamed Pinyon Plain Mine, sits near the south rim of the Grand Canyon and inside Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, in a meadow ...

Dr. Laura Crossey: The Grand Canyon is like a layer cake and some of the layers are these beautiful “confined” aquifers. People tend to think the water will stay in that one layer. But all you have to ...

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 ...

The Grand Canyon, a mile-deep chasm walled by steep cliffs, scorching in summer and chilly in winter, is a challenging place to be a fish. Historically, native fish in the Colorado River navigated big ...

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 ...

Michael Quinn, National Park Service. Strolling along the paved Rim Trail among flocks of tourists, you’ll find the Bright Angel Trailhead just west of Kolb Studio, a dark-brown building clinging to ...

Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell and provide power. How does the dam work? The presence — or lack — of water has shaped the desert Southwest. Since the ...