BY THOMAS BURR AND BRIAN MAFFLY
Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke says he will recommend possible action to change the Bears Ears National Monument within 45 days of the executive order... Read Original Story
BY BRIAN MAFFLY
On her journey home to Seattle from Washington, D.C., Sally Jewell spent a few weeks this spring in New Mexico, Utah and Nevada visiting some of the lands set aside as national... Read Original Story
BY THOMAS BURR
President Donald Trump this week will order a review of national monument designations — including southern Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — as part of a wide look at... Read Original Story
BY RON DUNGAN
The Navajo Nation Council will not take up a controversial Grand Canyon gondola-ride proposal during its spring session.
The heart of the project, known as the Grand Canyon Escalade, is... Read Original Story
BY RON DUNGAN
Leonard Sloan stood at the canyon’s edge and prayed. He spoke in Navajo and English, facing east, hat in hand, words floating into the abyss. He had left his house in Cedar Ridge in the... Read Original Story
President Obama’s declaration of the Bears Ears National Monument on December 28th, 2016 validated the considerable effort by Tribes and local community members to protect and manage the living... Read Original Story
BY LAUREL MORALES
BIG MOUNTAIN – Billowing clouds rolled in and out over Big Mountain, bringing wind, rain, snow and sun when beloved Navajo matriarch and activist Katherine Smith said goodbye to the... Read Original Story
For more than a decade, about 20 gallons of uranium-contaminated groundwater have been pumped per minute into a disposal pond from beneath a tailings site on the eastern edge of the Navajo Nation.... Read Original Story
