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 ...

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 ...

Pleasant Creek Campground is a convenient place to stay on a Utah parks road trip A string of campgrounds links Capitol Reef National Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Pleasant ...

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 ...

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 ...