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Public outcry and bipartisan opposition helped stop a senator’s proposal to sell off public lands in the Senate's budget bill ...
Up to 120 million acres of our public lands could be available for sale. If that happens, hunting, camping, birdwatching, and hiking opportunities would be lost forever.
A small but meaningful victory has halted a plan to massively expand Daneros uranium mine, near Bears Ears National Monument.
Utah voters strongly support national monuments in general, and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in particular, a new poll shows.
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 ...
Groundwater pumping at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon will affect the canyon's springs, scientists says.
Dr. Laura Crossey explains her research and what scientists know about groundwater in the Grand Canyon region.
An interactive dashboard about water quality, uranium, arsenic, lead, and flooding at Canyon Mine, also known as Pinyon Plain Mine.
Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell and provide power. How does the dam work?
This graph shows the maximum flow recorded in the Colorado River below Glenwood Springs, Colorado, from 1999-2023.
It’s a good day for the Grand Canyon region. Today President Joe Biden used his authority under the Antiquities Act to designate Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon ...
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 ...