100 Years: Reflections on the National Park Cenntenial
By John Fleck / On August 25th, 2016
On its centennial, there is no question in my mind about the central role of the U.S. National Park Service in my life’s trajectory.
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"All About the Relationship:" A Q&A with Lucy Moore
By Lucy Moore / On March 7th, 2016
Despite more than 100 years of stewardship and protection from agencies like the National Park Service, America’s wild places are still vulnerable to commercial and residential land development. In the Grand Canyon, uranium mining and increasing rates of tourism not only threaten land and air quality, they also undermine a social balance that Native Americans and other local groups have worked hard to maintain.
#KeepItWild Q&A with Jason Mark
By Jason Mark / On February 25th, 2016
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Why is Arizona significant to you and why should it be significant to the rest of the world?
I was born and raised in Arizona, and I have a huge affection for the place: the Sonoran Desert with its creosote cloves, the “sky islands” around Tucson, the ponderosa pine forests outside of Prescott where I learned how to ride horses. And of course the Grand Canyon, which is a marvel of the world.
Arizonans Support Ban on Grand Canyon Uranium Mining
By Roger Clark / On February 2nd, 2016
This week, Colorado College released the results from its 2016 Conservation in the West poll. Again, voters in the Grand Canyon state overwhelmingly support designating public lands surrounding the Grand Canyon as a national monument and thereby permanently banning new uranium mines on those lands.
Dispatches from the National Parks: Grand Canyon
By Robert Keiter / On June 5th, 2013
Dispatches from the National Parks, is a periodic blog by Robert B. Keiter, author of To Conserve Unimpaired: The Evolution of the National Park Idea
Standing on the rim of the Grand Canyon, the scene is as breathtaking as ever, seemingly unmarred by the trappings of modern civilization. The immense chasm is lined by burnt orange cliffs alight from the descending late afternoon sun, and its blue-grey rock slopes are dappled in shadows as the afternoon begins to fade toward evening.