More than two dozen bison that once roamed the North Rim of the Grand Canyon now call the Quapaw Nation of Oklahoma home, the goal of a pilot project to reduce the animals’ runaway population in the... Read Original Story
At 8 a.m. Sept. 17, several bright neon signs announced their intentions to comers and goers at Coconino Community College in Flagstaff.
The refrains are familiar to those in the Valle, Grand Canyon... Read Original Story
My son Josh was 16 in 1989 when we hiked as a family 18 miles down Death Hollow in southern Utah. We started out from Hell’s Backbone and worked our way down through Bureau of Land Management (BLM)... Read Original Story
Environmental groups are again pushing for the closure of the Canyon Uranium Mine south of Grand Canyon National Park after documents showed nearly 19 million gallons of contaminated groundwater have... Read Original Story
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service, faced with the slow pace of forest thinning, is seeking proposals to remove dense stands of trees in a wide swath of Arizona to help prevent wildfires... Read Original Story
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — An Italian real estate company that has long eyed development outside the Grand Canyon's South Rim again is seeking permission to improve forest roads and run utilities to its... Read Original Story
The town of Tusayan and an Italian developer are launching a new effort to build resorts and hundreds of homes south of the Grand Canyon, submitting a proposal to the U.S. Forest Service that would... Read Original Story
When John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt urged us to shield our iconic landscapes from the forces of greed and destruction, we listened. Muir in Yosemite, lamenting the “hoofed locusts” that devastated the... Read Original Story
