
(Top left to right) Thunder Mountain in Sedona by John Sheffield, Ranger Trail, Kanab Creek Wilderness by Cindy Stafford,
Havasu Creek by Taylor McKinnon, (Bottom left) Saguaro National Park by Ricardo Small.
Our Goals
- Protect our public lands from polluters, development, excessive recreational pressures, and mining. Work with Tribal Nations to ensure that sacred lands are safeguarded.
- Keep national monuments, including Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni and Ironwood Forests intact, keep these lands protected from mining interests.
- Ensure that forests are properly managed to protect remaining old growth habitat and to restore natural processes. Keep unroaded areas from being developed and fragmented.
- Protect large areas of and connectivity between undeveloped public lands in order to ensure resilient habitat for native plants and wildlife to better address the impacts of climate change.
- Limit impacts of mining, stop destructive mines such as Resolution Copper and Copper World, and hold mining companies accountable for impacts of Pinyon Plain Mine and other uranium mines. Reform outdated mining laws to put cultural and natural resource protection ahead of mining as priorities.
- Make conservation a top priority for lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
Actions You Can Take for Public Lands
Protect Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni - Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon and other national monuments!
Help Defend and Protect Our National Monuments!
Protect Grand Canyon's waters -- Shut Down Pinyon Plain Uranium Mine!
Pearce Opposition Letter from AZ Groups
Exploring Arizona's Public Lands
Watch Preserving AZ Wilderness Youtube Series
Sycamore Canyon Wilderness
[Video] Upper Sycamore Trail
[Video] Woodchute Trail
[Video] Kendrick's Trail
[Video] Juniper Mesa Wilderness
more coming soon...
Current News/Take Action!
Sierra Club Statement on Secretary Haaland’s visit to Grand Canyon to hear from Tribes on the proposed Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument
May 21, 2023
GRAND CANYON – On Saturday, Secretary of the Department of Interior, Deb Haaland, met with Tribal and community leaders at Grand Canyon National Park to learn more about a proposed national monument to protect more than one million acres of lands...
Federal Managers Authorize Cattle in San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area
April 7, 2023
BLM...authorize livestock grazing in the SPRNCA, once again prioritizing private livestock use over wildlife, clean water, and native plants -- According to conservation groups, [this follows BLM's] long history of failing to comply with federal law
The Sierra Club Palo Verde Group Sticker Design Contest
March 16, 2023
The Palo Verde Group (Phoenix area) of the Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter is inviting high school student artists from across Arizona to showcase their talents by submitting a design for stickers that will be distributed to attendees at our events...
News Release: Glen Canyon Dam Operations Must Safeguard Grand Canyon’s Humpback Chub
March 10, 2023
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation must manage Colorado River flows to prevent non-native smallmouth bass populations from establishing, thereby jeopardizing threatened humpback chub in the Grand Canyon, conservationists warned in formal comments...
News Release from Grijalva: Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act
March 6, 2023
Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) announced...the "Save Oak Flat From Foreign Mining Act" to permanently protect...from foreign mining operations...destroy tribal cultural and religious heritage sites...sacred to...tribal nations in Arizona...for millennia...
BLM Again Greenlights Harmful Grazing in SPRNCA
December 21, 2022
TUCSON, Ariz. – Today, the BLM once again quietly released its decision to authorize harmful livestock grazing in the protected San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (SPRNCA). Conservation groups see this...as contrary to the BLM’s mandate...
New BLM Guidance to Protect Wildlife in AZ
November 16, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued new guidance to land managers today prioritizing wildlife conservation and connectivity on the agency’s 245 million acres across the west... [click thru for 2-page PDF]
video: Cerro " El Fresnal" in Buenos Aires National Refuge under more destruction for border wall.
November 11, 2022
video: During Border Wall contruction Cerro " El Fresnal" got dynamited -- Now there is a giant scar that will probably be permanent -- The new road is in really bad shape -- this waste of resources will continue every year after monsoons -- berms...
video: Shipping Containers as Border Wall
November 1, 2022
video: Environmental impacts of shipping containers as border wall in Cochise County...
video: Border Wall construction at the Jacumba mountains and Skull Valley
October 17, 2022
video: Environmental impact of Border Wall construction at the Jacumba mountains and Skull Valley (and Davis Valley) -- heavily impacted by construction of the border wall, new roads, high berms, erosion -- and invasion of wildlife habitat by Border...
