In 1985, three conservation icons envisioned an organization wholly focused on protecting the Grand Canyon. Together, Jim Trees, Harriet Burgess, and Huey Johnson proposed a “Grand Canyon Trust” and immediately set to work to “make sure the Trust has sufficient reserve funds to wage war to protect the canyon and to undertake research on relevant issues as they arise.”
Since those early days, the Trust has used science, advocacy, and the law to stand up for the Grand Canyon on the ground, in court, and in the halls of Congress, and gratefully earned support from you and others like you across the country.
This year, 2019, marks the 100-year anniversary of the establishment of Grand Canyon National Park. To commemorate the occasion and to ensure that the Trust’s critical work will be sustained into the future, the board of trustees has approved the establishment of a Grand Canyon Endowment.
The goal, according to Steve Martin, board chair and former superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park, “is to grow an endowment to generate annual operating revenue necessary to address the most pressing conservation issues of the day. The canyon endures and so must the Trust’s essential work.”
In response to the board’s decision, Ethan Aumack, the Trust’s executive director, remarked, “Our job at the Trust, each and every day, year after year, is to safeguard this remarkable place for future generations. A Grand Canyon Endowment will help us do just that.”
Over the next five years, we aim to grow the endowment to at least $5 million.
To learn more and contribute, please contact Libby Ellis at (801) 541-3722 or lellis@grandcanyontrust.org
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