President Joe Biden has designated a new national monument designed to preserve Native American cultural sites and prevent new uranium mining on nearly 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon ...

A map of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. CREDIT: Bureau of Land Management/Grand Canyon Trust. Map by Stephanie Smith.

The monument will span 917,618 acres of federal forest and range lands, including the Marble Canyon area in the northeast, Kaibab National Forest lands south of Grand Canyon, and areas around the ...

President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated the fifth national monument of his presidency and unveiled new climate resilience funding for national parks during a visit to lands surrounding one of ...

President Biden on Tuesday designated a new national monument that will span more than 900,000 acres of land near the Grand Canyon, a move opposed by the mining industry. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters ...

The Biden administration announced a new national monument near the Grand Canyon, where a fight has been brewing over the future of domestic uranium production and nuclear energy. The new monument ...

The new monument could be 1 million acres or larger and protect areas considered sacred by tribes near Grand Canyon National Park but also eyed by uranium mining companies.

The 1.1 million-acre monument includes an area in the Kaibab National Forest to the south of the Grand Canyon, as well as two areas to the northwest along the Mohave-Coconino county lines, and to ...

President Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday. The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in ...

The monument will span 917,618 acres of federal forest and range lands, including the Marble Canyon area in the northeast, Kaibab National Forest lands south of Grand Canyon, and areas around the ...

Biden Announces New National Monument Near the Grand Canyon By Reuters • August 8, 2023 The president designated nearly a million acres of land in Red Butte, Ariz., as a national monument.

GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Declaring it good “not only for Arizona but for the planet,” President Joe Biden on Tuesday signed a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, ...