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Grand Canyon to eliminate sale of disposable plastic bottles

Following three months of delay, the Grand Canyon National Park eliminated the sale of plastic bottles within the park on Feb. 6 in order to reduce waste within...

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Uranium mining in Grand Canyon is exploitation

By Amanda Horner Mining for uranium in the Grand Canyon has been a simmering topic for a while now.  Republicans are supportive of corporations making a dime at...

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Tribal Judge Dismisses Grand Canyon Skywalk Suit

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Las Vegas developer David Jin plans to return to federal court to try to resolve a dispute over the Grand Canyon Skywalk after a tribal...

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Judge Reaffirms Dismissal of Skywalk Lawsuit

Flagstaff, Ariz. (AP) — A federal judge has reaffirmed a decision to dismiss a federal lawsuit that sought to keep a northern Arizona tribe from breaching its...

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A tourist at the Grand Canyon Skywalk is helped up from the glass bridge on the Hualapai reservation in northern Arizona on April 19, 2011. What most tourists are unaware of is a dispute between the northern Arizona tribe that owns the Grand Canyon Skywalk and the Las Vegas developer who invested millions to build it. So far the disagreements over revenue shares and construction haven't swayed visitation numbers, but the two sides say it could,(AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)

Grand Canyon Skywalk bridge finances disputed

A tourist at the Grand Canyon Skywalk is helped up from the glass bridge on the Hualapai reservation in northern Arizona on April 19, 2011. What most tourists are...

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Grand Canyon goes green with water bottle filling stations

The National Park Service (NPS) will be installing nine water bottle filling stations along the rim of the Grand Canyon in an effort to reduce plastic consumption...

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Photo courtesy of: Grand Canyon National Park

Plane that flew over the Grand Canyon is still missing

Photo courtesy of: Grand Canyon National Park There is still no sign of a missing man who disappeared over the Grand Canyon National Park in his self-constructed...

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The Comic Spot – Spring ’11 #5
 

N. Arizona forest releases revised travel plan

FLAGSTAFF (AP) — A northern Arizona forest has revised a travel management plan for thousands of acres south of Grand Canyon National Park, closing one-fifth of...

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A high-flow release of water is conducted by the U.S. Department of the Interior at Glen Canyon Dam, at Page, Arizona, in March 2008.  The artificial flood that sent water gushing through the Colorado River was meant to build up sandbars for camping sites and provide critical habitat for the endangered native humpback chub, but U.S. Geological Survey scientists said Tuesday that while the volume of sandbars increased, the flood had no measurable effect on the humpback chub population. (AP Photo/USGA, Anne Phillips)

USGS: Manmade flood leads to rise in rainbow trout

A high-flow release of water is conducted by the U.S. Department of the Interior at Glen Canyon Dam, at Page, Arizona, in March 2008. The artificial flood that...

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