High Country News: Let’s not bring Las Vegas to Grand Canyon
Critique of a developer’s plan to haul tourists on a tramway to the Colorado River.
Renewed Threats to the Grand Canyon Loom
From oars.com: The Latest in the Fight to Protect the Grand Canyon If you thought the Escalade tramway project was dead, it’s not. Or that the massive Tusayan development couldn’t happen, it still can. And if you assumed uranium mining was banned for good in the Grand...
If Peaks off limits, why not Confluence?
So the Navajos have revived their plan to build a gondola to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. I find it ironic that the Navajos are willing to desecrate what they themselves consider sacred just to make a buck. Why is it that when the revenue stream benefits the tribe, the Navajo’s concerns about protecting their sacred Grand Canyon evaporate?
Navajos Split on Grand Canyon Mega Development
But they weren’t prepared for the scale of those tourism plans — a mega-development with hotels, stores and even a tram.
“Does anyone else see the million red flags flapping briskly in the wind?”
Would multimillion developments be allowed off the reservation in cities and towns with those kinds of terms?