News

Breaking conservation news from across the Colorado Plateau and across the country.

Showing 8 of 1454 articles

SOURCE

Ted Grussing

Government Defunds Grand Canyon Scientific Research

Source: KNAU

News|August 21, 2018

BY MELISSA SEVIGNY The federal government plans to defund several longstanding programs that monitor the environmental health of the Colorado River and the Grand Canyon. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny... Read Original Story

Ellen Heyn

Zinke said he would never sell public land. But Interior is considering it.

Source: Washington Post

News|August 16, 2018

The Trump administration is proposing to dispose of federal land in southern Utah that was protected within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument until its boundary was redrawn by the... Read Original Story

Tim Peterson, flown by LightHawk

Trump’s team offers a new vision for Utah’s former Grand Staircase: Nearly 700,000 acres would be open to mining or drilling

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

News|August 15, 2018

Most of the lands removed from southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument would be available to coal mining and oil or gas drilling under federal draft plans released Wednesday,... Read Original Story

Don't let the feds kill this critical environmental law

Source: The Arizona Republic

News|August 14, 2018

BY TRAVIS BRUNER The National Environmental Policy Act sounds bureaucratic, scientific and slow — and sometimes it is. But without it, creatures like the Mexican spotted owl might not be with us when... Read Original Story

Tim Peterson

San Juan County clerk may be investigated after federal judge says he crossed the line in illegally dumping Navajo Willie Grayeyes from the ballot

Source: The Salt Lake Tribune

News|August 10, 2018

BY BRIAN MAFFLY The San Juan County officeholder who investigated a Navajo candidate’s residency might now come under investigation himself after a federal judge issued a written ruling late Thursday... Read Original Story

Tim Peterson

Trump can keep legal reasons for shrinking monuments secret

Source: Associated Press

News|August 7, 2018

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. government does not have to turn over documents to an environmental law firm about the legal arguments for President Donald Trump’s decision to shrink national monuments... Read Original Story

Ellen Heyn

Senate Democrats say new mining claims in Grand Staircase are ‘illegal’ while monument boundary dispute is in court

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

News|August 3, 2018

Some Democratic senators are demanding Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke explain how a Canadian company has snatched up a dozen mining claims inside the former boundaries of the Grand Staircase-Escalante... Read Original Story

Tim Peterson

Meet The Restaurateurs Fighting To Save The Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument

Source: NPR

News|July 30, 2018

Standing between peach and cherry trees on her 6.5-acre Utah farm, Blake Spalding points to the Kaiparowits Plateau. The looming bluff is dotted with thousand-year-old pinyon pine and juniper trees... Read Original Story

Breaking conservation news from across the Colorado Plateau and across the country.

Footer Links 1

Footer Links 2

Stay In Touch

Copyright Menu

News

Breaking conservation news from across the Colorado Plateau and across the country.

Footer Links 1

Footer Links 2

Stay In Touch

Follow Us

Copyright Menu