Exotic mountain goats are decimating the fragile alpine landscape of the La Sal Mountains and kicking up barren dust wallows in which nothing can grow. And, as the goats continue to multiply, the problem will only get worse.
Reservations produce millions of pounds of waste per year. With his own recycling truck, this Native entrepreneur hopes to keep more of it out of the landfill.
An evening with Michael Brune, Executive Director of the Sierra Club, featuring a screening of a brand new version of the short documentary film Our Canyon Lands.
While speculators may see their investments fall flat, those of us who actually live here face a much more dismal reality: the prospect of permanent radioactive contamination threatening Grand Canyon’s viability as the backbone of our region’s economy and as an internationally treasured landscape.
The Antiquities Act made the destruction of sites on federal lands and the removal of artifacts from them punishable by law. And, in a little-noticed clause, it also gave presidents the authority to declare national monuments of historic or scientific interest.