Rayzel: By day, visitors to Hovenweep National National Monument can marvel at structures still standing hundreds of years after Ancestral Pueblo people built them. But by night.
Pollard: (:13) It can be mind-blowing. Just the first time you see that Milky Way, shooting star. Just how incredibly dark those skies are.”
Erika Pollard is the associate director for the southwest region of the National Parks Conservation Association. She doesn’t just love dark skies, she wants to see them protected. Dark skies have many benefits, like for migrating wildlife, and their impairment also means a cultural loss for many people, including Native American tribes who continue to fight for dark sky preservation.
DENVER The 10th Circuit
upheld the National Park Service’s determination that a regulation, which generally prohibits the taking of wildlife in national parks, does not apply to park “inholdings.” The National Parks Conservation Association and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition lack standing to challenge the service’s approval of the 2015 Elk Reduction Program in Grand Teton National Park.
President-elect Joe Biden may be ready to shut that door for good.
âI canât believe I have to say this, but we canât let Donald Trump open up the Grand Canyon for uranium mining,â Biden tweeted in August, after a Trump administration task force on nuclear fuel proposed relaxing restrictions on mining on federal lands.
In a statement posted at the same time, Biden called the Grand Canyon an âirreplaceable jewelâ and blasted the Trump administrationâs mining plan, saying he would focus instead on developing clean energy. While Biden did not lay out a specific mining plan, his statement was still enough for Kevin Dahl.
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Advertisement: “We are finding out more things about how water travels and how one spring in the Grand Canyon might be influenced by last winter’s snowpack, and how another spring might be being supplied with water from thousands and perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, depending upon the geology that supports it,” he said. Dahl worries the aquifers and faults make the Grand Canyon susceptible to water contamination and other negative effects of mining. He and other environmentalists point to the 17-acre Canyon Mine in Kaibab National Forest, which was in place before the moratorium took effect and was, therefore, exempt.