New million-acre monument sought near Arizona's Grand Canyon

ByAlexis Waiss Cronkite News Tribal leaders joined state lawmakers have called on President Joe Biden to set aside more than 1.1 million acres around the Grand Canyon as a new national monument.

“We want the ability to use the resources that we have in our county to be self-sufficient. We’re not looking for handouts from the government,” said Mohave County Supervisor Buster Johnson, who claimed uranium mining could be worth billions to the region’s economy. Flores and others on the call said Biden should again invoke the Antiquities Act, which allows presidents to set aside lands to protect cultural or natural resources.

A request for comment from the Interior Department on the Grand Canyon plan was referred to the White House, which did not respond Tuesday. In 2012, the Interior Department imposed a 20-year moratorium on new permits for mines on more than 1 million acres around the Grand Canyon. Coconino County Supervisor Lena Fowler said the new monument designation would make that ban permanent but would not disrupt grazing, logging, hunting or other outside recreation.

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