Saturday July 25, 2009, 3:26 am
This should be an important concern to every American! Anytime our govt. wants to step in and let companies destroy a monumentally beautiful park, we should ALL be involved and protesting.

The Havasupai Tribe (and the Sierra Club) is staging a major protest this weekend and hopefully this will be the start to everyone getting involved in STOPPING this action.

As for right now, please call/write your congress people to let them know you are against mining the Grand Canyon!! Thanks!

Saturday July 25, 2009, 8:37 am
noted & pition signed

Saturday July 25, 2009, 9:58 am
Thank you Kat. This is a very distubing turn of events I thought we had put a stop to mining around the canyon. I cannot phyically be there but my spirit will be!

Saturday July 25, 2009, 10:37 am
Thanks Kathy!

Saturday July 25, 2009, 2:52 pm
OMG, I was in Supai in 1973 with my small high school group for a week. It is so lovely there..there is no way I can describe the beauty of it through the day and night, sleeping under the stars. It would break my heart to see it disturbed in anyway. This is a tragedy we must not allow to happen!! I am on my way to sign the petition. Can not be there, except in spirit, as Stephanie said.

Saturday July 25, 2009, 2:54 pm
Is there a petition.....site doesn't appear to have one.???

Saturday July 25, 2009, 3:09 pm
Sierra club announcement says it has been , well, here, you read it.

http://action.sierraclub.org/site/MessageViewer?em_id=120801.0&JServSessionIdr011=h8szpzhd42.app17a

Saturday July 25, 2009, 4:08 pm
I went back through my e-mails and also found this! We WON this round! YEA!

Dear Stephanie,


Thanks for helping us
protect the Grand Canyon.



In a tremendous victory for the Center for Biological Diversity's campaign to keep uranium mining out of the Grand Canyon, today the Interior Department barred the filing of new uranium mining claims on 1 million acres of stunning, irreplaceable public lands near the park -- lands that will now be off limits to uranium exploitation for two years while the government studies its options for permanent protection.

Thank you for all your help sending letters to Congress and the Interior Department over the last year. This is a major win in protecting the Canyon and we couldn't have done it without the backing of our supporters.

The Center had filed suit last summer to compel the Interior Department to withdraw these lands from uranium mining, as directed by a June 2008 resolution by the House Committee on Natural Resources. Today's announcement marks a major step forward in the fight to stop one of the world's most iconic natural landscapes from being plundered for uranium.

The administration's order comes just as Congress considers legislative mining reforms. Tomorrow, a crucial congressional subcommittee -- the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands -- will hear testimony on the Grand Canyon Watersheds Protection Act of 2009, introduced by Representative Raúl Grijalva of Arizona. If passed, the Act would permanently ban exploration and new claims on about 1 million acres of public lands bordering Grand Canyon.

And just last week the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources heard testimony on legislation to reform the antiquated 1872 mining law -- and in that hearing EPA testified that hard-rock mining has affected 40 percent of all western watersheds and generates 28 percent of the toxic pollution in the United States.

With this win and your support we'll take full advantage of the momentum to give the Canyon's lands the permanent protection they deserve. Thank you for all you've done to support our work and to help keep Grand Canyon lands out of the hands of mining companies.

Enjoy this victory,

Sunday July 26, 2009, 2:59 am
I hope this temporary block will stick! If so, the gathering will not be a protest, but a celebration. Will keep you all posted! :)

Sunday July 26, 2009, 7:06 pm
Yeah... next time they want our vote... we will have to be hard rocked... remembering one hand washes the other... we'll be looking to mining for votes in another county... hee hee

Sunday July 26, 2009, 10:52 pm
Thanks, please keep information coming -- this area should NEVER be touched.

Monday July 27, 2009, 1:37 am
Noted. Thanks & Please keep us up tp date. Thank You