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

Supporting tribes We support the rights of Native peoples Almost anywhere you travel in the Southwest, you can see signs of thousands of years of continuous Native American presence. When it comes to ...

Jack Dykinga Travel approximately 13 miles upstream of the confluence in the Little Colorado River gorge and you reach the aptly named Blue Spring. A consistent year-round source, the water at Blue ...

Native experts weigh in on the history of tribal lands, sovereignty, and what it means to own land. This blog is distilled from the Native Perspectives virtual series held in partnership with Grand ...

The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of agriculture, powers dams that supply electricity to the western U.S., and is the heart of the recreation and tourism ...

Before the Grand Canyon was a national park, it was the ancestral homeland of Native peoples. Hear voices of the Grand Canyon speak. Experience the Grand Canyon alongside Jim Enote (Zuni), Nikki ...

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 ...

The complexity and vast unknowns about the region’s groundwater flow make it virtually impossible to definitively assess and manage risk as well as any contamination that occurs. It’s because of this ...

Here at the Trust, it’s our love of place that drives our work. We attend meetings, don work gloves, and write grant reports. We defend national monuments, organize intertribal gatherings, and argue ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...