Grand Canyon

If you've ever been to the Grand Canyon, you understand that there are few words to describe its spectacular views and wide expanses.

If you haven't been, you might be interested in protecting it for your future trip.

Grand Canyon Uranium Mining PSA from James Q Martin Media on Vimeo.

Help Protect the Grand Canyon From Uranium Mining

TAKE ACTION -- FILL OUT THE FORM ON THE LINK

Congress is poised to gut protections on 1 million acres of public lands around the Grand Canyon -- if we don’t take action right now to ban uranium mining in this national park.

The Grand Canyon is ground zero for a new uranium-mining boom. New mining would industrialize iconic wildlands and threaten irretrievable pollution of aquifers and the biologically rich springs and creeks they feed -- springs that harbor up to 500 times more species than adjacent lands.

In June, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar visited Grand Canyon, announcing that he favors enacting a 20-year ban on new mining across Grand Canyon National Park's 1-million-acre watershed.

Days later, a bill was introduced in Congress that would strip the Obama administration's authority to enact those protections -- sacrificing the Grand Canyon’s magnificent lands for more destructive uranium mining. The House of Representatives votes on that bill in late July or early August.

Please use the form below to send your U.S. representative a letter urging them to oppose provisions blocking Grand Canyon's needed protections.

Please take action by August 15, 2011.