Just outside Canyonlands National Park’s Island in the Sky district, oil has been a booming business since 2012 when Fidelity Exploration and Production brought in a gusher of an oil well.
Readers along the Wasatch Front and beyond were treated to a fine summary of public lands issues in this week’s Salt Lake City Weekly. Moab local Eric Trenbeath reports on Greater Canyonlands – the...
The Havasupai Tribe and conservation groups including the Grand Canyon Trust won a major victory in the legal battle to protect the Grand Canyon watershed last week.
by Roger Clark, Grand Canyon DirectorRenae Yellowhorse rose before dawn last week to make the long journey from her home near Tuba City, on the Navajo reservation, to the studios of KNAU radio...
“Every 15 or 20 years, it seems, the canyon forces us to undergo a kind of national character exam. If we cannot muster the resources and the resolve to preserve this, perhaps our greatest natural...
Most of the electricity generated on the Colorado Plateau comes from burning fossil fuels. Find out about the EPA's proposal to cut carbon dioxide emissions from the nation’s power plants.
Conservation groups sent a letter last week urging federal regulators to suspend operations at a uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, where millions of gallons of uranium-laced groundwater threaten people and wildlife.
