Up to 120 million acres of our public lands could be available for sale. If that happens, hunting, camping, birdwatching, and ...

The federal government fast-tracked its environmental review of Velvet-Wood uranium mine, a long defunct uranium mine in ...

The Grand Canyon Trust is grounded in place, working tirelessly since 1985 to protect the air, water, and wildlife of the Grand Canyon and Colorado Plateau’s slickrock canyons, fragile deserts, and ...

Few things unite Utahns like their support for their national public lands. New Utah poll on national monuments. A December 2024 poll of 500 registered voters in the beehive state by Republican public ...

A small victory in the legal case challenging Daneros uranium mine, near Bears Ears National Monument. After six years, there’s a speck of light at the end of the tunnel for a legal case challenging ...

Canyon Mine, renamed Pinyon Plain Mine, sits near the south rim of the Grand Canyon and inside Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument, in a meadow ...

Dr. Laura Crossey: The Grand Canyon is like a layer cake and some of the layers are these beautiful “confined” aquifers. People tend to think the water will stay in that one layer. But all you have to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Glen Canyon Dam flooded over 180 miles of the Colorado River to form Lake Powell and provide power. How does the dam work? The presence — or lack — of water has shaped the desert Southwest. Since the ...

High Colorado River flows are, in part, the result of heavy snowfall that blanket the mountains throughout the Colorado River Basin. This graph shows the maximum flow recorded in the Colorado River ...