Grand Canyon Trust
@grandcanyontrust.bsky.social
A conservation organization with a mission to safeguard the wonders of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado Plateau, while supporting the rights of its Native peoples. This is our hope-filled feed.
Ute tribal members in White Mesa, Utah and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are getting some help in their decades-long struggle to protect their land, water, and people from a nearby uranium mill. www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/communi...
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Ute tribal members in White Mesa, Utah and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe are getting some help in their decades-long struggle to protect their land, water, and people from a nearby uranium mill. www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/communi...
🦇 This Grand Canyon “bat cave” is one of the world’s longest known caves. Happy Halloween from the Grand Canyon.
See pictures: bit.ly/GrandCanyonB...
See pictures: bit.ly/GrandCanyonB...
October 31, 2025 at 3:25 PM
🦇 This Grand Canyon “bat cave” is one of the world’s longest known caves. Happy Halloween from the Grand Canyon.
See pictures: bit.ly/GrandCanyonB...
See pictures: bit.ly/GrandCanyonB...
November 5 in Flagstaff: coconinoarts.org/event/film-s...
October 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
November 5 in Flagstaff: coconinoarts.org/event/film-s...
How much water is in Lake Powell and Lake Mead? See a live feed of distance above power pool and dead pool at both reservoirs: bit.ly/LakePowellLa... @zakpodmore.bsky.social @lukerunyon.bsky.social @brandonloomis.bsky.social
October 27, 2025 at 11:58 PM
How much water is in Lake Powell and Lake Mead? See a live feed of distance above power pool and dead pool at both reservoirs: bit.ly/LakePowellLa... @zakpodmore.bsky.social @lukerunyon.bsky.social @brandonloomis.bsky.social
🚨New Map Alert! Beautiful new illustrated 2025 Colorado Plateau Map, created by Grand Canyon Trust GIS Director Stephanie Smith.
⬇️ Download your free copy: bit.ly/ColoradoPlat... #Map #GIS #Cartography #ColoradoPlateau
⬇️ Download your free copy: bit.ly/ColoradoPlat... #Map #GIS #Cartography #ColoradoPlateau
October 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
🚨New Map Alert! Beautiful new illustrated 2025 Colorado Plateau Map, created by Grand Canyon Trust GIS Director Stephanie Smith.
⬇️ Download your free copy: bit.ly/ColoradoPlat... #Map #GIS #Cartography #ColoradoPlateau
⬇️ Download your free copy: bit.ly/ColoradoPlat... #Map #GIS #Cartography #ColoradoPlateau
Join the White Mesa Concerned Community, @bearsearscoalition.bsky.social & supporters this Saturday Oct 4 for a spiritual walk standing with the Ute Mountain Ute Community of White Mesa to protect public health, clean water, air quality, land, culture, and sacred places from uranium contamination.
October 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Join the White Mesa Concerned Community, @bearsearscoalition.bsky.social & supporters this Saturday Oct 4 for a spiritual walk standing with the Ute Mountain Ute Community of White Mesa to protect public health, clean water, air quality, land, culture, and sacred places from uranium contamination.
The long haul route is risky:
September 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The long haul route is risky:
The radioactive placards are tiny:
September 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The radioactive placards are tiny:
8-12 trucks like this one are leaving Pinyon Plain uranium mine (aka Canyon Mine) south of Grand Canyon National Park daily, hauling uranium ore to the Energy Fuels uranium mill near Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, more than 300 miles away. Local residents report speeding.
September 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
8-12 trucks like this one are leaving Pinyon Plain uranium mine (aka Canyon Mine) south of Grand Canyon National Park daily, hauling uranium ore to the Energy Fuels uranium mill near Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, more than 300 miles away. Local residents report speeding.
The White Mesa Ute Community invites you to walk with them to protect their people, health, environment, and sacred lands from the nearby uranium mill. Saturday, October 4:
September 22, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The White Mesa Ute Community invites you to walk with them to protect their people, health, environment, and sacred lands from the nearby uranium mill. Saturday, October 4:
Today's the last day to speak up to protect roadless forests like these from logging & unnecessary road-building. Please comment now: www.grandcanyontrust.org/act/protect-...
September 19, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Today's the last day to speak up to protect roadless forests like these from logging & unnecessary road-building. Please comment now: www.grandcanyontrust.org/act/protect-...
Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects critical water supplies and wildlife habitat around the Grand Canyon. 80% of Arizona voters support it. Cast your vote to keep the monument as it is: www.kdminer.com/opinion/what...
September 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects critical water supplies and wildlife habitat around the Grand Canyon. 80% of Arizona voters support it. Cast your vote to keep the monument as it is: www.kdminer.com/opinion/what...
2 years ago today: Decades of advocacy led by Native American tribes culminated with the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. Find out what the monument protects. bit.ly/bnik
August 8, 2025 at 5:08 PM
2 years ago today: Decades of advocacy led by Native American tribes culminated with the designation of Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. Find out what the monument protects. bit.ly/bnik
"Every time you go to the rim, you need to respect that canyon. People don’t understand that it is one of the most powerful altars of this world." -Dianna Sue White Dove Uqualla, Havasupai
Visit respectfully www.grandcanyontrust.org/resources/vi...
📷: Raymond Chee
Visit respectfully www.grandcanyontrust.org/resources/vi...
📷: Raymond Chee
June 27, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"Every time you go to the rim, you need to respect that canyon. People don’t understand that it is one of the most powerful altars of this world." -Dianna Sue White Dove Uqualla, Havasupai
Visit respectfully www.grandcanyontrust.org/resources/vi...
📷: Raymond Chee
Visit respectfully www.grandcanyontrust.org/resources/vi...
📷: Raymond Chee
Happy National Caves and Karst Day from the Grand Canyon bat cave. 🦇
Read the story: lnkd.in/gnBpRcYP
Read the story: lnkd.in/gnBpRcYP
June 6, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Happy National Caves and Karst Day from the Grand Canyon bat cave. 🦇
Read the story: lnkd.in/gnBpRcYP
Read the story: lnkd.in/gnBpRcYP
"This cultural information is important for all Native people. This is why tribes have set aside any differences and come together: if this information is lost, it’s lost forever.” – Octavius Seowtewa, Zuni elder
📍Bears Ears National Monument
📷: Tim Peterson
📍Bears Ears National Monument
📷: Tim Peterson
May 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
"This cultural information is important for all Native people. This is why tribes have set aside any differences and come together: if this information is lost, it’s lost forever.” – Octavius Seowtewa, Zuni elder
📍Bears Ears National Monument
📷: Tim Peterson
📍Bears Ears National Monument
📷: Tim Peterson
“The Grand Canyon is where we came from and when the Creator calls us, it is where we will go home.” – Corrina Bow, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
📍Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
📍Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
May 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
“The Grand Canyon is where we came from and when the Creator calls us, it is where we will go home.” – Corrina Bow, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
📍Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
📍Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument
LeaderShift is a FREE environmental justice & advocacy training program for college-age students. Travel across the Southwest, sleep under the stars, and spend your days learning from local changemakers.
🔎 Apply for summer 2025:
www.grandcanyontrust.org/rising-leade...
🔎 Apply for summer 2025:
www.grandcanyontrust.org/rising-leade...
February 25, 2025 at 4:47 PM
LeaderShift is a FREE environmental justice & advocacy training program for college-age students. Travel across the Southwest, sleep under the stars, and spend your days learning from local changemakers.
🔎 Apply for summer 2025:
www.grandcanyontrust.org/rising-leade...
🔎 Apply for summer 2025:
www.grandcanyontrust.org/rising-leade...
Some hopeful news for the new Grand Canyon monument! Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects nearly 1 million acres of public lands outside Grand Canyon National Park. 4 in 5 Arizona voters now support it. New poll: bit.ly/ArizonaMonum...
January 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Some hopeful news for the new Grand Canyon monument! Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument protects nearly 1 million acres of public lands outside Grand Canyon National Park. 4 in 5 Arizona voters now support it. New poll: bit.ly/ArizonaMonum...
Some inspiring news from Utah! A new poll shows Utah voters are united in their support for national monuments, and for keeping Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante as national monuments. See the results: bit.ly/UtahMonument...
January 14, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Some inspiring news from Utah! A new poll shows Utah voters are united in their support for national monuments, and for keeping Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante as national monuments. See the results: bit.ly/UtahMonument...
This map of the uranium haul route from Pinyon Plain Mine near Grand Canyon Nat'l Park was our most widely shared map of 2024. 100,000+ people viewed it, 18,000+ signed the petition. If you were one of them, THANK YOU.
5 maps to give you hope for 2025: www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/5-maps-...
5 maps to give you hope for 2025: www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/5-maps-...
December 19, 2024 at 5:06 PM
This map of the uranium haul route from Pinyon Plain Mine near Grand Canyon Nat'l Park was our most widely shared map of 2024. 100,000+ people viewed it, 18,000+ signed the petition. If you were one of them, THANK YOU.
5 maps to give you hope for 2025: www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/5-maps-...
5 maps to give you hope for 2025: www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/5-maps-...