Every park matters. Every story counts. And every site deserves protection.
There are more than 430 national parks across the country -- battlefields, seashores, recreation areas, and historical sites and monuments that preserve American history and landscapes.
Every member of Congress must stand up against assaults on America’s beloved National Park System for us all, and for future generations.
The Central Yukon Resource Management Plan covers more than 13 million acres of public lands and includes guidelines for managing populations of salmon and caribou and improving public access in the region, while conserving what makes these lands unique.
Dismantling the plan by congressional resolution would throw our entire system of managing public lands into chaos. Urge your senators to vote No on S.J. RES 63.
#CentralYukon #NPCA #Petition
https://act.npca.org/page/88394/action/1?ea.url.id=3994678&forwarded=true
Dismantling the Central Yukon plan through a congressional resolution would throw our entire system of managing public lands into chaos. Urge your senators to vote No on S.J. RES 63. We must protect the Western Arctic caribou, Alaska Native communities, and Alaska’s spectacular parklands.
Five years ago, Congress and the Trump administration made a bold, bipartisan promise to invest in national parks. The Great American Outdoors Act enabled the Park Service to tackle high-priority repair and maintenance projects, create jobs and contribute to local economies.
The America the Beautiful Act would extend funding to address the deferred maintenance backlog.
Nearly five years ago, Congress and the Trump administration made a bold, bipartisan promise to invest in our national parks. Since then, the Great American Outdoors Act has delivered, enabling the Park Service to tackle more than 600 high-priority repair and maintenance projects nationwide. Urge Congress to keep this work going.
#Protests Against #GrandCanyon #UraniumMine Continue
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Coalition statement, via #CensoredNews
GRAND CANYON, #Arizona — "#Conservation advocates will join Tribal leaders and members Saturday, Aug. 24, to demand the closure of the #PinyonPlain uranium mine that threatens the waters of the Grand Canyon and the #Havasupai Tribe.
What: Protest near #RedButte and the Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine calling on #GovHobbs and federal officials to close the mine.
When: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 24.
Where: Junction of Highway 64 and Forest Service Road 320, 10.5 miles north of Grand Canyon Junction (Valle, Arizona). Here is a map.
Who: Staff and members of the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, #SierraClub, #ChispaArizona, #WildArizona, National Parks Conservation Association [#NPCA] and other groups will join Havasupai Tribal leaders and members of other Tribes in solidarity and will be available for interviews.
"The mine, which began extracting uranium ore on Jan. 8, is 7 miles south of Grand Canyon National Park, at the foot of sacred Red Butte (Wii'i Gdwiisa in Havasupai), and inside the newly designated Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument.
"Saturday’s protest will come after weeks of recent actions opposing the mine and the hauling of radioactive #UraniumOre across the #NavajoNation, which has called the transportation of uranium across its land an infringement on Tribal sovereignty.
"Earlier this month Navajo Nation President #BuuNygren issued an executive order banning shipments of uranium from the mine across the Nation; hauling is now paused. Soon after Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes called for an updated environmental study on the mine, warning of potential risks of allowing the mine to proceed under the authority of a nearly 40-year-old Environmental Impact Statement.
"In June, Tribal members and conservation groups delivered a petition with more than 17,000 signatures urging Gov. Hobbs to use her authority to close the mine. In January, 80 groups and scientists called on her to do the same. New research indicates that the best way to protect the waters of the region is to shut down the mine."
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/08/protests-against-grand-canyon-uranium.html
#HaulNo #NoMiningWithoutConsent #NavajoNation #PinyonPlainUraniumMine #ReaderSupportedNews #WaterIsLife #BlackMesa #NoUraniumMining #Navajo #InformedConsent
#EnvironmentalRacism #ShutDownPinyonPlain #ProtectTheSacred #Diné #Dinébikeyah #dinetah #NoUraniumMiningWithoutConsent
It's Arch Madness!
No, that's not a typo: the National Parks Conservation Association is choosing the favorite arch in US National Parks.
The first round of voting closes March 19.
##ArchMadness #NationalParks #NPCA
Karen E. Lund 💙💛
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