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Thursday, April 03, 2014
Sierra Club Proposes New Grand Canyon Monument
NAZ Today's Kimberly Craft talks with Alycin Gitlin of the Sierra Club about her group's proposal to create Grand Canyon Watershed National Monument, protecting land north and south of Grand Canyon National Park. The monument would cover 1.7 million acres and include the North Kaibab Plateau, House Rock Valley and Kaibab-Pausagant Wildlife Corridor, along with adjacent uranium withdrawal lands.
Gitlin says this land should be protected from threats to the watershed by uranium mining and logging...more
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