Grand Canyon

On Tuesday, the Cortez City Council will hold a meeting and make a decision about a rezoning application for a parcel of land near Carpenter Natural Area. The parcel to be discussed during Tuesday’s meeting is located off of Highway 491 and is owned by Independent Log Company. The land does not border residential properties but is adjacent to the park. And Indigenous communities are calling for a million acres of land surrounding the Grand Canyon to be declared a national monument. The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni national monument would leave in place a moratorium on uranium mining in the region that tribes like the Havasupai say is important to protect sacred sites like nearby Red Butte.

The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service held a public meeting in northern Arizona on Tuesday on a new, tribally-proposed national monument near the Grand Canyon. It would protect over one million acres of land for tribes that call the canyon home.

A new round of cutbacks is coming for some water users on the Colorado River. And a new poll shows a majority of Arizonans support permanently banning uranium mining around the Grand Canyon.

The growing global debate over an energy source with a deadly past is playing out amidst the sweet sage and pine trees of the forest right by the Grand Canyon. Uranium prices are climbing again and Arizona has cleared the way for a once-stagnant mine to resume operations.

A federal appeals court ruled this week against environmental groups and an Arizona tribe in their bid to keep a uranium mine south of the Grand Canyon from operating. And in Colorado, a proposed diversion to carry water out of the San Luis Valley and into Douglas County is drawing opposition from farmers, environmentalists, and politicians.

The Colorado River through the national park holds lessons for managing an essential and diminishing resource in a rapidly warming climate.

Understanding the springs is important because about a quarter of the world’s population relies on water that comes from karst systems.

Students at Havasupai Elementary School in the bottom of the Grand Canyon have prepared handwritten letters to Donald Trump expressing concern about the…

The Dolores River Boating Advocates are hosting a presentation by author Kevin Fedarko at their permit party on Friday, January 19th at 6pm. Fedarko says…

Wildlife managers in Grand Canyon National Park are trying to find new methods to control invasive fish species in the Colorado River. The Arizona Daily…