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 public lands. But we’re watching and working to stop these ...

On my first day at the Grand Canyon Trust seven years ago, I was greeted with a warm welcome, hot coffee, and a stack of papers on my desk. Those papers concerned a massive expansion of the Daneros ...

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 ...

After six years, there’s a speck of light at the end of the tunnel for a legal case challenging Daneros uranium mine, a controversial uranium mine on public lands near Bears Ears National Monument. On ...

In 1986, the U.S. Forest Service approved a plan to operate a private uranium mine on the Kaibab National Forest, near Grand Canyon National Park. Based on the science available at the time, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

High Colorado River flows are, in part, the result of heavy snowfall that blanket the mountains throughout the Colorado River Basin. This graph shows the maximum flow recorded in the Colorado River ...

The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is the third national monument to be proposed by tribes working together to protect their homelands. It ...

A June 2023 poll of Arizona voters found strong public support for designating existing public lands around the Grand Canyon as a national monument. A monument designation would protect precious water ...