Public outcry and bipartisan opposition helped stop a senator’s proposal to sell off public lands in the Senate's budget bill ...

There’s so much happening on the national political stage in America right now that it’d be easy to miss emerging and serious threats to the public’s ownership of our lands. But we’re watching and ...

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 ...

Petition Protect all national monuments Since 1906, presidents of both parties have used the Antiquities Act to protect natural and cultural landscapes across the United States as national monuments.

Every year, the National Park Service publishes a report that shows economic impacts of national parks to local communities. 2023 4.7 million visitors to Grand Canyon National Park spent $768 million ...

If you’re driving to or from the Grand Canyon’s south entrance and you pass a tractor trailer that resembles a dump truck covered in a canvas tarp, it might be worth a closer look. Canyon Mine, also ...

Dr. Laura Crossey: In my opinion, the conclusions from studying natural tracers are strong enough to show that on a less than 10-year timescale, there is a risk of downward migration through faults.

Pinyon Plain Mine (formerly Canyon Mine) is an active uranium mine near the south rim of the Grand Canyon. Despite opposition from the Havasupai Tribe and many other tribes of the Grand Canyon region ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lake Powell’s depth is measured as its elevation above sea level. When waters reach 3,700 feet above sea level, the reservoir is at “full pool.” Any more water would spill over the top of the dam. At ...