The grass moved and swayed in the wind, I could almost feel the breeze. A bird would fly to the tree and perch on the creaking branch but in the next slide, it would disappear.
All were anxious to document our target species, the mountain lion, and get a glimpse of other elusive northern Arizona wildlife otherwise invisible to most visitors to this remote and wild region.
In an important victory for public lands and Grand Canyon National Park, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge last week dismissed a lawsuit by VANE Minerals LLC challenging the Department of the Interior’s 2012 decision to ban new uranium mining across a million acres of public land in Arizona for 20 years.
The Escalade project continues to occupy the minds of many families wanting to save their sacred area, the land where many generations settled to raise livestock and live a peaceful existence. The...
Islands evoke visions of diversity: strange trees, magnificent reptiles, beautiful flowers, resplendent birds. Much of this diversity is due to an island's physical isolation from other islands...
Ken Salazar at Grand Canyon National Park, June 20, 2011. Photo by Erin Whittaker, National Parks Service
Two years ago, Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva greeted us warmly as we stepped in from a squall of snowflakes for a special event in Washington DC. My 17-year-old daughter and I had flown out from...
Facing a lagging uranium market, Grand Canyon’s zombie mines may be falling back into their graves. But their pollution problems remain alive and well—along with agencies’ refusal to require updated reviews or reclamation.
They are undead. They've been put to rest for years -- perhaps decades. Buried and forgotten. But our complacency can be shattered in an instant when, with no warning, they are up and running again, leaving trails of contamination, threatening everything they encounter.
One year after the Obama administration enacted new protections limiting uranium mine development on 1 million acres around Grand Canyon National Park, pollution and legal threats from the uranium industry remain.
