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Places Cut from Bears Ears National Monument
See places stripped of monument protections on July 13, 2026.
Bears Ears National Monument
See images from across the original boundaries of Bears Ears.
The Grand Canyon Trust is deeply disappointed by today’s presidential action attempting to gut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments for a second time.
President Trump’s cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments threaten public lands and tribal stewardship.
Senator Mike Lee’s bid to overturn the 2025 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan through the Congressional Review Act has fallen short.
Opponents of Pinyon Plain Mine have a right to protest under the First Amendment, and the Grand Canyon Trust fully supports anyone who chooses to lawfully exercise that right.
The Grand Canyon Trust is accepting applications from young people ages 18-27 for its 2026 LeaderShift Scholars program.
An attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s management plan threatens to upend public lands protection as we know it.
The 5th annual Grand Canyon Regional Intertribal Intergenerational Stewardship Expedition (RIISE) is accepting applications from Native youth ages 16-20 who identify as members of one of the associated Native American tribes of the Grand Canyon.
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah is the first target of members of Congress trying to use an obscure law to attack monuments.
The Grand Canyon Trust is devastated by the losses on the north rim of Grand Canyon National Park from the Dragon Bravo Fire.
The Grand Canyon Regional Intertribal Intergenerational Stewardship Expedition (RIISE) is accepting applications from young people ages 16-20 who identify as members of one of the associated Native American tribes of the Grand Canyon.
Congressman Raúl Grijalva was a true friend of the Grand Canyon and his conservation legacy lives on at the canyon today.
The Grand Canyon Trust opposes the U.S. Department of the Interior’s review of national monuments.
Arizona voters strongly support Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni national monument near the Grand Canyon.
Voters in Utah overwhelmingly support Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments.
What cultural resources, water sources, plants, and animals are protected in the new Grand Canyon national monument? Find out in this new story map.
More than 275,000 pounds of unwanted radioactive materials from the Japan Atomic Energy Agency have arrived at the uranium mill in White Mesa, Utah.
Conservation groups are defending the new Grand Canyon national monument against lawsuits that aim to both undo it and dismantle the Antiquities Act.
A Colorado River rafting trip through the Grand Canyon connects Indigenous young people with their ancestral homelands.
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Colorado Plateau Advocate Magazine
Looking for a back issue of the Grand Canyon Trust’s award-winning Colorado Plateau Advocate magazine?
Photo gallery: places cut from Bears Ears
See places in Bears Ears National Monument stripped of monument protections on July 13, 2026.
Photo gallery: places cut from Grand Staircase
See places in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument stripped of protections on July 13, 2026.
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