Things never really change, do they? Take the Grand Canyon, for example. A century ago, the canyon looked much the same as it did today, with its red cliffs, its pink sunsets, its gathering storms, its grifters on the Rim, looking for a way to make a fast buck. Ralph Cameron has gone down in…
Category: Grand Canyon at risk
Stories about the Grand Canyon at risk and threats to the Colorado Plateau: uranium mining, helicopter noise, Grand Canyon West, the Escalade, Bears Ears National Monument, Escalante, national parks, national monuments, conservation.
The West
News: Monument reductions The Trump administration will reduce the size of two national monuments in Utah. The Department of Interior said in a press release that Bears Ears National Monument, created by the Obama administration, and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, created by the Clinton administration, both face reductions. “The Antiquities Act does not give the…