Public outcry and bipartisan opposition helped stop a senator’s proposal to sell off public lands in the Senate's budget bill ...

There’s so much happening on the national political stage in America right now that it’d be easy to miss emerging and serious threats to the public’s ownership of our lands. But we’re watching and ...

On my first day at the Grand Canyon Trust seven years ago, I was greeted with a warm welcome, hot coffee, and a stack of papers on my desk. Those papers concerned a massive expansion of the Daneros ...

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument stretches across more than 1.8 million spectacular acres of rivers, slickrock, stone arches, and winding canyons in southern Utah. It’s a vibrant landscape ...

Few things unite Utahns like their support for their national public lands. New Utah poll on national monuments A December 2024 poll of 500 registered voters in the beehive state by Republican public ...

After six years, there’s a speck of light at the end of the tunnel for a legal case challenging Daneros uranium mine, a controversial uranium mine on public lands near Bears Ears National Monument. On ...

If you’re driving to or from the Grand Canyon’s south entrance and you pass a tractor trailer that resembles a dump truck covered in a canvas tarp, it might be worth a closer look. Canyon Mine, also ...

Dr. Laura Crossey: In my opinion, the conclusions from studying natural tracers are strong enough to show that on a less than 10-year timescale, there is a risk of downward migration through faults.

The Information Lab analyzed data from annual aquifer protection reports submitted by the owner of Canyon Mine (also known as Pinyon Plain Mine), a contested uranium mine near the Grand Canyon, and ...

Since late 2016, more than 66 million gallons of groundwater have been pumped out of a controversial uranium mine, Canyon Mine (renamed Pinyon Plain Mine), near Grand Canyon National Park. The water ...

Michael Quinn, National Park Service Strolling along the paved Rim Trail among flocks of tourists, you’ll find the Bright Angel Trailhead just west of Kolb Studio, a dark-brown building clinging to ...

Lake Powell’s depth is measured as its elevation above sea level. When waters reach 3,700 feet above sea level, the reservoir is at “full pool.” Any more water would spill over the top of the dam. At ...