BY EMERY COWAN
In mid-March Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell received a stern letter from the office of Arizona’s senior senator.
The letter from Sen. John McCain focused on the largest contractor on... Read Original Story
BY ZOË CARPENTER
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke likes to talk about listening. “This is the first time in a monument that we’ve given the public a say,” Zinke claimed last week during a swing through... Read Original Story
BY ZAK PODMORE
More than 90 people gathered outside the White Mesa Community Center on the morning of May 13 and prepared to march five miles north to the White Mesa Mill.
Thelma Whiskers, cofounder... Read Original Story
BY JULIE TURKEWITZ
Ryan Zinke, the secretary of the interior, stepped into the desert last week at the edge of the 1.3-million-acre red-rock expanse that is roiling the West.
Mr. Zinke had billed his... Read Original Story
BY JIM MIMIAGA
About 80 protesters opposed to the White Mesa uranium mill in southeast Utah marched three miles along U.S. Highway 191 to the mill’s entrance Saturday.
The protest was organized by... Read Original Story
BY PETER O'DOWD
The Navajo Nation in northern Arizona is scrambling to keep a coal-fired power plant and coal mine from closing in 2019.
Tribal officials have asked the Trump administration for help... Read Original Story
BY KIRK SIEGLER
A lot of the anger over federal public land in rural Utah today can be traced back to a windy, gray day in Arizona in September 1996. At the Grand Canyon, President Bill Clinton... Read Original Story
Dear Secretary Zinke,
A few days ago, President Donald Trump made his displeasure with our national monument system and the Antiquities Act official by calling for a review of national monument... Read Original Story
