The campaign to defeat Escalade is not over. A fleet of black jeeps carrying interested investors on their way out to visit the proposed site of the project was recently intercepted by a local sheepherder.
After six years in college and graduate school in the Southeast, I was excited to swap Appalachia’s dense forests for the Southwest’s wide-open desert vistas.
Obsolete and unsafe regulations allow uranium mining companies to play Russian roulette with America’s most treasured public lands, including the Grand Canyon.
Navajo Nation president Ben Shelly will be leaving office this week, but even with Escalade’s champion out of play, the Confluence Partners have not yet backed down.
“Did you come from…down there?” I had just hiked more than 13 miles and climbed nearly 5,000 feet on the last day of my trip, and I was not in any mood to entertain tourists.
