Grand Canyon Trust
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A conservation organization with a mission to safeguard the wonders of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau, while supporting the rights of its Native peoples. This is our hope-filled feed.
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Canyon Mine, also known as Pinyon Plain Mine, is mining uranium inside Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni national monument, near Grand Canyon National Park. Please sign the petition to voice your opposition to this mine. www.grandcanyontrust.org/act/i-oppose...
Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Petition | Grand Canyon Trust
Sign the petition to oppose uranium mining near Grand Canyon National Park and Canyon Mine (Pinyon Plain Mine) specifically
www.grandcanyontrust.org
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Today on #IndigenousPeoplesDay, let's recognize the strength, leadership, and ongoing presence of Tribal Nations across this continent.

It’s a day to honor Indigenous peoples and the deep, living relationships they hold with the lands we now call “public.”

📸: : Tim Peterson (background)
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Last week, the Trump Administration announced it is making previously off-limits public land available for coal leasing under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), including 48,000 acres in Utah.

Maps and additional info can be found here: suwa.org/trump-admini...
Join the White Mesa Concerned Community, @bearsearscoalition.bsky.social & supporters this Saturday Oct 4 for a spiritual walk standing with the Ute Mountain Ute Community of White Mesa to protect public health, clean water, air quality, land, culture, and sacred places from uranium contamination.
The radioactive placards are tiny:
8-12 trucks like this one are leaving Pinyon Plain uranium mine (aka Canyon Mine) south of Grand Canyon National Park daily, hauling uranium ore to the Energy Fuels uranium mill near Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, more than 300 miles away. Local residents report speeding.
"What do you love?" If you need a little pick-me-up, we recommend this talk by botanist Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass. (She begins speaking at about min 27) youtu.be/OmEtm-r4gso?...
Public Keynote Speaker: Robin Wall Kimmerer
YouTube video by Northern Arizona University
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Mark your calendar! The White Mesa Concerned Community’s annual spiritual walk to protect people, the environment, and public health from the White Mesa uranium mill is coming up on October 4, 2025.

Join the walk: protectwhitemesa.org

#ProtectWhiteMesa #WhiteMesaSaysNo #CloseWhiteMesaMill
Thank you for spreading the word about this earlier this summer.
The White Mesa Ute Community invites you to walk with them to protect their people, health, environment, and sacred lands from the nearby uranium mill. Saturday, October 4:
Today's the last day to speak up to protect roadless forests like these from logging & unnecessary road-building. Please comment now: www.grandcanyontrust.org/act/protect-...
Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects critical water supplies and wildlife habitat around the Grand Canyon. 80% of Arizona voters support it. Cast your vote to keep the monument as it is: www.kdminer.com/opinion/what...
For nearly 25 years, the “roadless rule” has protected millions of acres of forests from new road construction, logging, and industrial development. Help stop the rollback of these important protections.

Comment deadline: Sept. 19, 2025
Stop Rollback of Forest Protections | Grand Canyon Trust
Use your voice to stop the rollback of a policy that protects forest lands, watersheds, wildlife habitat, and more.
www.grandcanyontrust.org
2 years ago today: Decades of advocacy led by Native American tribes culminated with the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. Find out what the monument protects. bit.ly/bnik
The sun shines above sandstone cliffs, with a pink prickly pear flower in the foreground.
"Every time you go to the rim, you need to respect that canyon. People don’t understand that it is one of the most powerful altars of this world." -Dianna Sue White Dove Uqualla, Havasupai

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📷: Raymond Chee