Tribal leaders, lawmakers want new 1.1 million acre monument in Arizona
Alexis Waithe | Cronkite News Tribal leaders joined state lawmakers on Tuesday in calling on President Joe Biden to secure more than 1.1 million acres of land around the Grand Canyon as a new national monument. Environmental groups and a dozen tribes in the area say the Baji Nwabjo Itaa Kukveni Grand Canyon is proposed. […]
Supervisor: ‘Leave Mohave County out’ of new Grand Canyon monument talks | Local News Stories
KINGMAN — Elected officials in Mojave County say they do not support new proposals to build a national monument near the Grand Canyon. Their comments came after Congressmen and Arizona tribes announced they were seeking to designate 1.1 million acres of land for a new Grand Canyon National Monument in northern Arizona. Mojave County supervisors […]
Tribal leaders, lawmakers want new 1.1 million acre monument in Arizona – Cronkite News
A pink sunrise seen from Hopi Point on the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in this 2018 photo. Tribes and environmental groups are urging the president to designate an additional one million acres around Grand Canyon National Park as a new national monument to further protect the park. (photograph M Quinn/National Park Service) WASHINGTON […]
Briefs: Monument Valley buttes display sunset spectacle | Kingman Daily Miner
Monument Valley, Utah – The Navajo Nation’s Monument Valley on the Arizona-Utah border had a sunset spectacle this week featuring two mitten-shaped rock formations. Twice a year, in late March and mid-September, spectators, photographers and videographers get their hands on some visual treats. As the sun sets, the shadow of West Mitten Butte crawls across […]
U.S. Route 163 Really Is The Most Scenic American Southwest Drive Through Monument Valley
U.S. Route 163 is the famous “Forest Glamp” road. It was along this isolated highway, commonly known as “Forrest Gump Point,” that he suddenly decided to stop running. U.S. Route 163 has become one of the most iconic and stunning roads in the United States, or at least the Southwest. This is a National Scenic […]
Bipartisan effort seeks national park status for Chiricahua monument
Arizona Daily Star Eva Marie Hube Congressman Juan Ciscomani and Senator Mark Kelly partnered on a bill to upgrade the Chiricahua National Monument to a national park. Republican House members and Democratic senators introduced related legislation earlier this month to boost the status of about 12,000 acres of land. monument About 120 miles southeast of […]
This Arizona Monument Could Be Our Next National Park
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Kelly, Ciscomani support redesignation of Chiricahua National Monument
Rep. Juan Ciscomani and Sen. Mark Kelly teamed up to introduce a bipartisan bill that would make Chiricahua National Monument a new national park. Bills to make Chiricahua a national park have been introduced several times in Congress, but without success. But the bill has gained support and passed the Senate last year without any […]
Investigation underway after body found near Sunset Crater National Monument
Coconino County Sheriff’s Department detectives are investigating the death of a person whose body was found south of Sunset Crater National Monument on Friday. Lawmakers were summoned to a popular tourist destination after the death was reported.CCSO identified the subject and launched an investigation. Investigators have ruled nothing out, according to John Paxton, now a […]
A Monument to Tulare Assembly Center
Former detainees, descendants, and Mission Oak High School students at Tulea Amusement Park near the proposed monument to commemorate the park’s use as an internment facility for Japanese Americans during World War II. (Photo credit: Michael Paul Mendoza) Lau Ozawa Koji After a three-and-a-half hour drive, we arrived at the Tulea County Fairgrounds on a […]
