Pinyon jays are sky blue birds that live in large flocks in the pinyon-juniper woodlands of the Colorado Plateau. They are not officially endangered, but their populations have plummeted in the last... Read Original Story
Mike McPharlin saw the clouds building into dark columns over the Capitol Gorge picnic area in Capitol Reef National Park and told his wife, Carolyn, they needed to leave. About 20 minutes later,... Read Original Story
Humpback chub in the Grand Canyon have flourished under long-running restoration efforts. But now, exotic fish that prey on chub and other native fish have begun to slip through Glen Canyon Dam. It’s... Read Original Story
Grand Canyon National Park had four and a half million visitors last year, which helped boost the northern Arizona economy.
A National Park Service report shows that visitors spent more than $710... Read Original Story
For decades, the Havasupai Tribe has voiced its opposition against the operation of Pinyon Plain Mine, a uranium mine located about 10 miles south of the Grand Canyon.
“As the Havasupai Tribe, we... Read Original Story
Imagine your neighbors were always hollering and carrying on, having wild parties, making it hard to breathe with their campfire smoke, and giving you headaches day and night. Imagine the police came... Read Original Story
The Pinyon Plain uranium mine sits fewer than 10 miles from Grand Canyon National Park on the ancestral homelands of my people, the Havasupai, the “people of the blue-green water.”
As the guardians... Read Original Story
Bears Ears National Monument, whose red-rock landscape sprawls across more than 1.3 million acres in southeastern Utah, will be managed jointly by the federal government and Native American tribes in... Read Original Story
