The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument will conserve about 1,562 square miles in three separate areas north and south of the Grand Canyon. It's intended to protect ...

The new national monument will be called Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument. According to the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition that drafted a proposal for the monument ...

Aaron Paul with the Grand Canyon Trust said with the monument, the land is protected. “The Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument was created to protect about 1,000,000 acres around the ...

The list, they added, includes Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon, Ironwood Forest, Chuckwalla, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase ...