The La Sal Mountains rise like ungainly totems above the red rock desert outside Moab, Utah. From afar the forested slopes and barren, rock-strewn peaks have none of the splendor of nearby Arches or... Read Original Story
A meeting between an Interior Department official and a company tied to mineral interests in the Bears Ears National Monument area — almost a month before President Donald Trump requested a review... Read Original Story
How does an award-winning, collaborative, 10-year restoration project for Utah’s state tree – the aspen – suddenly get dissed as a project that would be more successful if only more roads could be... Read Original Story
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert has submitted his highly anticipated petition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture seeking a rollback of restrictions on road building and logging on much of the state’s 4.2... Read Original Story
GRAND CANYON – Rep. Raúl Grijalva’s bill enacting a permanent ban on uranium mining drew praise this week from Havasupai leaders and criticism from the mining industry, as well as from a Republican... Read Original Story
At its Feb. 26 meeting, the Flagstaff city council reaffirmed its support of a resolution originally passed in 2010 that states the city supports a ban on uranium mining in the vicinity of the Grand... Read Original Story
One hundred years ago today, Americans celebrated protecting the Grand Canyon as a national park. But for Native Americans, the redrawn boundaries excluded them from ancient hunting grounds and... Read Original Story
Grand Canyon National Park has always been at the center of a tug-of-war between preservation and profit.
Theodore Roosevelt in the early 1900s advocated for protection of the Arizona canyon, saying... Read Original Story
