In a special Road to 30: Postcards episode, Aaron and Kate talk to two members of the Havasupai Tribe about the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument. The proposed monument would partially surround and help protect the Grand Canyon National Park, as well as the communities that live in and near the canyon, from uranium mining. The monument is being proposed by a large group of tribes called the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition, which includes members of the Havasupai, Hopi, and Hualapai Tribes, as well as the Kaibab Paiute Tribe, the Las Vegas Band of Paiute, the Moapa Band of Paiutes, the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, the Navajo Nation, the San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe, the Yavapai-Apache Nation, the Pueblo of Zuni, and the Colorado River Indian Tribes. Carletta Tilousi, a former tribal councilwoman who has helped lead the effort to establish the monument, and Stuart Chavez, a former tribal councilman who serves on the Havasupai Anti-Uranium Subcommittee, talk about their involvement in the fight for the monument and how it would help protect their homeland.

• White House to agencies: Tally projects’ financial damage to ecosystems – E&E News
  
• Alexander Skarsgård Explains the Answer to Everything. (It Involves Doing Some Math.) – New York Times
  
• Map of proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument – Grand Canyon Trust
  
• Biden expected to create Grand Canyon national monument to block new mining, sources say – Washington Post
  
• Road to 30: Postcards – Stories from America’s Lands and Water – Center for Western Priorities
  

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