Compare maps of the 2026 cuts to Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments. Download your pdfs of the maps.
Resource Issue: National monuments
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.
On July 13, 2026, President Trump issued a new proclamation cutting Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by 90% and eliminating a landmark co-stewardship framework for the monument.
On July 13, 2026, President Trump issued a new proclamation cutting Bears Ears National Monument by 91% and eliminating a historic cooperative agreement with the five tribes of the Bears Ears Commission.
Rising arsenic levels in monitoring wells at Pinyon Plain uranium mine raise concerns about possible contamination of groundwater in the Grand Canyon region.
Senator Mike Lee’s bid to overturn the 2025 Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Management Plan through the Congressional Review Act has fallen short.
An attack on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s management plan threatens to upend public lands protection as we know it.
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’s 2025 map of national monuments, national parks, landmarks, plants, and animals across the Colorado Plateau.
According to Dianna Sue White Dove Uqualla (Havasupai), the Grand Canyon is one of the most powerful altars in this world.
Zoom in on this interactive map of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
Find out what Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects in this interactive story map.
This brochure outlines the native plants, plant communities, rare plants, and more that are found in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument.
This map shows active mining claims, including various uranium mines, inside the boundaries of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument
Learn about the 129 species of plants noted in the proclamation of Bears Ears National Monument.
For more than 600 generations, the Bears Ears cultural landscape has been a homeland to Native American tribes. Learn the history of Bears Ears.
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.
A December 2024 poll of 500 voters across Utah found strong public support for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments
A December 2024 poll of 500 Arizona voters by public opinion research firm GQR found strong public support for Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
Utah voters strongly support national monuments and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in particular a December 2024 poll shows.
A December 2024 poll of 500 Arizona voters by public opinion research firm GQR found strong public support for Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni.
What cultural resources, water sources, plants, and animals are protected in the new Grand Canyon national monument? Find out in this new story map.
See a map of public lands and tribal lands across northern Arizona, southern Utah, southwest Colorado, and northwest New Mexico.
Learn about the history of uranium mining near the Grand Canyon and the extra protections that Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument brings to the region. Download the lesson plan.
View the present-day tribal lands of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition tribes.
See the boundaries of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.