Who saved the Grand Canyon?

For years, Brower and the Sierra Club fought against the construction of the dams and, in 1956, Congress finally eliminated the project. Many historians see Brower's early success as a turning point for the environmental movement, eventually leading to landmark protections such as the Wilderness Act of 1964.



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As employees of the National Park Service (NPS) we are tasked with both protecting the land and sharing it with the public. It is a big job that takes a lot of people.

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The Havasupai Tribe is one of 11 Native American tribes that are traditionally affiliated with the Grand Canyon National Park. They've been living among the Grand Canyon's towering red walls of rock and expansive high desert landscape for centuries, before it ever became a U.S. national park.

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It is protected by the many laws that have been passed and programs put in place by the government to conserve and restore the natural wonders of the Grand Canyon in order to leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations. Park scientists use integrated pest management techniques to eradicate and ...

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The Making of a National Park President Benjamin Harrison first protected the canyon in 1893 by renaming it Grand Canyon Forest Reserve. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the canyon. He designated it a national monument in 1908.

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Keep the Canyon Grand Uranium mining risks contamination of precious water sources, and proposed developments threaten the natural, cultural, and scenic values of the canyon. We address these issues head-on, protecting the Grand Canyon — the heart of the Colorado Plateau — for future generations.

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The Havasupai, also known as the “People of the Blue-Green Water,” live on 3 million acres near the South Rim. The arrival of the Havasupai is set at around A.D. 1300, and they are known to be the only permanent, continuous inhabitants of the Grand Canyon.

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We Are Still Here Indigenous people are the first inhabitants and caretakers of the land that later became the United States of America and Grand Canyon National Park. Native people of this land still exist today and continue to have deep cultural connection to this land.

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The Grand Canyon The canyon was called Ongtupqa in the Hopi language and was considered a holy site and a passageway to the afterlife.

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