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Grand Canyon National Park
Stand · Find your defenders

Who’s defending the Grand Canyon?

7 groups on the record for it

National park in Arizona, 1.2M acres, managed by the National Park Service, designated in 1919.

The groups

Who’s in the fight for the Grand Canyon

Every group here is listed for a sourced fact, and each fact opens its source. Give directly; no gift routes through this site.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on the Grand Canyon. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

The situation

What’s happening to Grand Canyon

Two billion years of Earth’s history carved into stone, visited by six million people a year, and still not safe from uranium mining. Legacy mines on the rim already leach radioactive contamination into springs that feed the Colorado River. The 20-year mineral withdrawal that was supposed to stop new claims is under active review for reversal.

  1. 1919Established as national park
  2. 201220-year uranium mining withdrawal enactedCenter for Biological Diversity
  3. 2023Baaj Nwaavjo monument adds surrounding protections
Legacy mine contamination

Source: Grand Canyon Trust

No public comment window is open on Grand Canyon right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

In the courts

The cases over this place

The dockets we track that name Grand Canyon directly. Active first.

WonNational Mining Association v. Ryan ZinkeNinth Circuit · filed 2014 · Docket ↗
WonMountain States Legal Foundation v. BushD.C. Circuit · filed 2001 · Docket ↗
WonUtah Ass’n of Counties v. ClintonTenth Circuit · filed 2000 · Docket ↗
LostHavasupai Tribe v. Heather ProvencioNinth Circuit · filed 2015 · Docket ↗
ClosedGrand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project v. HaalandAZD · filed 2022 · Docket ↗
ClosedGrand Canyon Trust v. WilliamsAZD · filed 2013 · Docket ↗

Your move

How to stand for the Grand Canyon

GiveGive to Grand Canyon Trust

Straight to their own donation page. Your dollar never passes through us.

Their donation page ↗SpeakCall your representatives

A ready call script on Grand Canyon, plus any comment window as it opens.

Public Lands Action NetworkFollowWatch the map

Every threatened place in the country, tracked, with who stands for each.

Threatened Lands Map

Build my lineup around Grand Canyon: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

Grand Canyon has defenders. It needs more.

3 local groups, 4 more in the fight, Grand Canyon Trust with 48 staff + 210 volunteers. That is who is holding it. Find your way in.

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Sources and methodThe situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Grand Canyon, with per-item sources. Court cases: CourtListener dockets in the MTJP litigation database (6 naming this place). Group crews and program ratios: IRS Form 990 via ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, latest filed year, EINs on each group’s profile. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-11-01. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.