Last week, Utah sought to legally intervene in support of President Donald Trump’s efforts to shrink two national monuments in the state. In two motions filed with the U.S. District Court for the... Read Original Story
In May, Peter Jensen, an environmental coordinator for Patagonia who’s based in Salt Lake City, embarked with a colleague on a three-day backpacking trip through the Upper Paria River Canyon, a... Read Original Story
When President Donald Trump carved nearly 2 million acres out of two southern Utah national monuments last year, conservationists were quick to inventory which popular sites were stripped of federal... Read Original Story
In 2007, years into a record-breaking drought throughout the southwestern U.S., officials along the Colorado River finally came to an agreement on how they’d deal with future water shortages -- and... Read Original Story
North America’s first commercial oil-shale operation cleared perhaps its biggest hurdle when the federal government authorized a 14-mile corridor across public land in eastern Utah’s Uinta Basin to... Read Original Story
The ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon implemented by the Obama administration was effectively upheld on Monday when the US supreme court declined to hear a challenge from the industry.... Read Original Story
APACHE COUNTY — With the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requirements met, forest restoration work on the West Escudilla Project has begun. The project is approximately 66,000 acres and a... Read Original Story
Three years ago, in the course of thirteen months, the photographer Peter McBride and the writer Kevin Fedarko hiked from one end of the Grand Canyon to the other. They did it in eight sections,... Read Original Story
