Granite Mountain Hotshots monument effort seeks additional funds to cover rising costs | The Daily Courier
With just a month to go until the 10th anniversary of the Mount Granite Hotshot tragedy, the funds needed to build the much-anticipated monument to the Yavapai County Courthouse Square are reportedly short. Blaming the recent surge in transportation and material costs for the situation, the Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial Partnership will install a memorial […]
Chiricahua monument could become Arizona’s 4th national park
Chiricahua National Monument is one of Arizona’s unique sky islands, with a history of Geronimo, Buffalo Soldiers, and 1930s Civilian Conservation Corps, and if a bipartisan bill is finally passed by Congress this year, Arizona will It could become the fourth national park. And that could mean more tourism and resources for communities near the […]
Chiricahua National Monument under national park consideration
Chiricahua is thought to have formed after a 27-million-year-old volcanic eruption left a 600-foot-high layer of pumice and ash that coalesced to form rhyolitic tuff. (Photo credit: National Park Service) Maasai Point in Chiricahua National Monument offers beautiful views. (Photo credit: National Park Service) Wilcox – Chiricahua National Monument – One of Arizona’s unique sky […]
Mohave County issues letter of protest against proposed national monument | Local News Stories
The Mojave County Board of Supervisors has formally protested the establishment of a national monument west of the Grand Canyon. This bans him from developing or mining more than 1 million acres in northern Mojave County. Several Southwestern Native American tribes petitioned to create the Baj Nwabjoitha Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument earlier this year. […]
County to vote on possible opposition to Grand Canyon monument | Local News Stories
Mojave County is currently at odds with a confederacy of Native American tribes in northern Arizona and is preparing to oppose the proposed Barge Nuwavjoyter Kukuveni Grand Canyon National Monument. The monument was proposed this year by the Federation of Grand Canyon Tribes seeking federal protection for 1.1 million acres of land west of the […]
Our View: A misleading proposal: Grand Canyon national monument is a bad idea | Opinion
National monuments are generally very popular with the public. National monuments are an easy way to preserve beautiful or historically significant areas, and they’re less work than creating a national park. A national monument only needs a stroke of the president’s pen. A national monument in the Grand Canyon area proposed by a handful of […]
Lawmakers, tribal leaders hope to designate new Grand Canyon National Monument | News
On Wednesday, April 12, Arizona Sen. Kirsten Cinema, tribal leader, and U.S. Congressman Raul Grijalva unveiled a new grand opening next to Grand Canyon National Park, covering approximately 1.1 million acres in northern Arizona. Submitted a proposal to create a Canyon National Monument. Park and Kaibab National Forest. The proposed monument was created by the […]
Protecting ancestral lands: Tribal coalition supports measure to designate monument near Grand Canyon | Williams-Grand Canyon News
GRAND CANYON, Arizona — Navajo and Hopi officials are among a coalition of tribes supporting a proposal to designate 1.1 million acres adjacent to Grand Canyon National Park as a monument. Sen. Kirsten Cinema, Rep. Raul Grijalva, Coconino County Superintendent Lena Fowler, Flagstaff Mayor Becky Daggett Call on President Joe Biden to Establish Bahji Nwabjo […]
Tribal leaders support push for creation of Grand Canyon national monument
The Grand Canyon is the ancestral home of several Southwestern tribal nations, and the tribes still rely on the canyon for natural and cultural resources that are important and sacred to their communities. Additionally, to preserve the natural resources the Grand Canyon offers, tribal leaders from the Federation of Grand Canyon Tribes have expressed support […]
Tribes want national monument protection for Grand Canyon
Anita Snow Associate Press PHOENIX — Arizona tribal leaders said Tuesday they want to build on President Joe Biden’s recent momentum Designated a National Monument in neighboring Nevada To persuade the administration to create similar protections for areas adjacent to the Grand Canyon. “This designation is a top priority for the Hopi Nation,” said Timothy […]
