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President Joe Biden designated a new national monument totaling nearly 1 million acres outside Grand Canyon National Park Tuesday. “By creating this monument, we’re setting aside new spaces for families to bike, hike, hunt, fish and camp,” Biden said during his remarks at a historic abandoned airfield near Red Butte, a sacred site for the Havasupai Indian Tribe. “Preserving these lands is good, not only for Arizona but for the planet, it’s good for the economy, it’s good for the soul of the nation.” The move was praised by Sen....

Biden’s New National Monument Near the Grand Canyon Is a Big Freaking Deal The designation protects land sacred to Native tribes and blocks new mining. Maya Tilousi, member of the Hopi Tribe, Havasupai Tribe of Grand Canyon, and the Cheyanne and Arapaho Tribes, shakes hands with Joe Biden at Red Butte Airfield, 25 miles south of Tusayan, Arizona, on August 8, 2023. Biden will give an area of nearly one million acres "national monument" status. President Joe Biden designated a new national monument near the Grand Canyon on Tuesday, protecting...

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and TERRY TANG (Associated Press) GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — 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, turning the decades-long visions of Native American tribes and environmentalists into reality. Coming as Biden is on a three-state Western trip, the move will help preserve about 1,562 square miles (4,046 square kilometers) just to the north and south of Grand Canyon National Park. It was Biden’s fifth monument...

While tribal leaders and environmental advocates celebrated President Biden’s latest national monument declaration, the National Cattleman’s Beef Association is calling it “presidential overreach.” On Tuesday, the president scheduled an event in Red Butte, Arizona to announce nearly one million acres of land adjacent to the Grand Canyon will become the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. The move will stop potential uranium mining in the area while protecting land considered sacred to local tribes and Indigenous people.

President Joe Biden announced the creation of a new national monument on Tuesday that is expected to surround the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It will be titled "The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni–Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument," and will ban new uranium mining claims in the region, according to Politico. This will be the fifth monument designated by Biden during his presidency. The monument will be co-managed by Native American tribes and federal agencies through an established commission.

TUSAYAN, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his go to to Arizona on Tuesday to formally announce a nationwide monument designation for the larger Grand Canyon, making Native American tribes’ and environmentalists’ decades-long imaginative and prescient to protect the land a actuality. Biden is anticipated to announce plans for a brand new nationwide monument to protect about 1,562 sq. miles (4,046 sq. kilometers) simply exterior Grand Canyon Nationwide Park, nationwide local weather adviser Ali Zaidi confirmed.

TUSAYAN, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his visit to Arizona on Tuesday to formally announce a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, making Native American tribes' and environmentalists' decades-long vision to preserve the land a reality. Biden is expected to announce plans for a new national monument to preserve about 1,562 square miles (4,046 square kilometers) just outside Grand Canyon National Park, National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi confirmed a day earlier. It will mark the president's fifth monument designation.

TUSAYAN, Ariz. (AP) — President Joe Biden will use his visit to Arizona on Tuesday to formally announce a national monument designation for the greater Grand Canyon, making Native American tribes' and environmentalists' decades-long vision to preserve the land a reality. Biden is expected to announce plans for a new national monument to preserve about 1,562 square miles (4,046 square kilometers) just outside Grand Canyon National Park, National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi confirmed a day earlier. It will mark the president's fifth monument designation.