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 ...

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 ...

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.

Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects nearly 1 million acres of Native American tribes’ ancestral homelands north and south of the Grand ...

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.

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 ...

Bluehead sucker. U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE The sleek, torpedo-shaped bluehead sucker is found in rocky, fast-moving waters of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Smaller than the flannelmouth ...

In 1986, the federal government analyzed the “Impacts on Indian Religious Concerns” related to the proposed Canyon Mine, a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon. A history of overlooking Indigenous ...

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 ...

How does Glen Canyon Dam work? Water levels at Lake Powell determine how much water can pass through Glen Canyon Dam into the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon. A minumum amount of water is ...