Grand Canyon National Park fire officials are planning to conduct a prescribed fire on the South Rim within the next two weeks if weather and forest conditions permit. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/news_2009-09-28_rx.htm

Grand Canyon National Park staff will soon begin the regular seasonal closure of many visitor services and facilities on the North Rim. However, the rim will remain open with limited services through November 29 or until snow closes Highway 67. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/news_2009-09-30_nr_soft_closure.htm

The National Park Service is making plans to burn piles of woody debris on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park over the course of the next 30 days. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/news_2009-10-07_nr_piles.htm

Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Steve Martin today announced the availability of a prospectus for guided trail rides using mules at the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.  https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/news_2009-10-09_nr_mules.htm

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Grand Canyon National Park fire officials implemented the Hearst Tank prescribed burn on the South Rim Saturday, Oct. 24. Approximately 100 acres were ignited.    https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/news_2009-10-25_sr_rx.htm

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Body of man recovered from below South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/body-of-man-recovered-from-below-south-rim-of-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

The body of a man that was recovered from below the South Rim of Grand Canyon on Saturday afternoon has been identified as that of 62 year-old, B. Holt Vaughn from Broomfield, Colorado.  https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/body-of-man-recovered-from-below-the-south-rim-of-grand-canyon-identified.htm

With snow already falling and a winter storm warning in effect through the evening of Monday, December 7, winter driving conditions have arrived in Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/news_20091207_winter_driving.htm

Grand Canyon National Park rangers and road crews continue to work on clearing Desert View Drive of multiple accidents after light snow fell on wet roads just as evening temperatures dropped below freezing on Tuesday, December 29. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2009-12-29_accidents.htm

The National Park Service (NPS) recently awarded the contract for construction of Phase II of the improvements called for in Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim Visitor Transportation Plan to Fann Contracting, Inc. of Prescott, Arizona.  https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/news_2010-02-08_phase_ii.htm

Grand Canyon National Park Superintendent Steve Martin has announced that a revised environmental assessment (EA) for the construction of a new Science and Resource Management Facility in the park is now available for public review and comment. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/national-park-service-announces-availability-of-revised-environmental-assessment-for-new-science-and-resource-management-facility-in-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

The National Park Service has released an Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Closure Plan and Environmental Assessment for projects to correct health and safety hazards associated with abandoned mines in four national park system sites in Arizona. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-02-12_mines_ea.htm

A private boating party stranded near Crystal Rapid in Grand Canyon National Park was able to continue down the river late Thursday afternoon after being rescued by National Park Service rangers. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-02-26_rescue.htm

The Superintendents of Lake Mead National Recreation Area (Lake Mead NRA) and Grand Canyon National Park announce the March 15th opening of the two-mile extension of the Pearce Ferry Road to the Colorado River. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-03-04_lame.htm

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Grand Canyon National Park’s greenhouse population of sentry milk-vetch blooming in early March 2010, representing a major landmark in the park’s effort to recover its only federally-listed, endangered plant species. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-03-24_smv.htm

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Fire managers on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park are making plans to burn piles of woody debris. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-05-10_nr_piles.htm

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A man found deceased after park rangers and tactical team negotiators spent several hours trying to talk him out of a residence in Grand Canyon National Park has been identified as 51 year old Mark Twain Ferguson of Arizona. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-05-13_ident.htm

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Grand Canyon National Park fire managers plan to conduct a prescribed fire on the South Rim within the next several weeks if weather and forest conditions permit. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/14jun2010-2_news.htm

Park and forest managers have made the decision to manage the Saffron Fire for both resource and protection objectives. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/1jul10_news.htm

Body of young woman found below the North Rim of Grand Canyon identified https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/09jul10-2_news.htm

At approximately 9:15 p.m. on Sunday, July 11, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report of a man seen exiting a car at Moran Point, climbing over a retaining wall and lying down on the edge of the canyon rim. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/12jul10-2_news.htm

A body retrieved from below Moran Point at Grand Canyon National Park on Monday, July 12 has been positively identified as that of 50 year old Kirby Porter of Mechanicsville, Virginia. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/15jul10_news.htm

The National Park Service is making plans to burn piles of woody debris on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park within the next several days, if current weather conditions persist. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/21jul10-2_news.htm

In order to facilitate the safe and timely completion of pavement preservation work, it will be necessary to temporarily close the North Rim Scenic Drive on two separate occasions. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/21jul10_news.htm

The National Park Service (NPS) has purchased six low-floor accessible compressed natural gas (CNG) powered transit buses to be used as part of the visitor transportation system on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2aug10_news.htm

Under clear blue skies the National Park Service and Havasupai tribal members held a ribbon cutting ceremony today for newly constructed housing in Supai Camp located within Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/5aug10-2_news.htm

At approximately 2:45 p.m., the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a report that a man had fallen over the edge near Mather Point on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/5aug10-3_news.htm

At approximately 4:00 p.m. on Monday, August 9, rangers freed the second of two boats which became stranded over the weekend at Crystal Rapid on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/10aug10-2_news.htm

The man killed in a single-vehicle accident on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park on August 23, has been identified. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-08-27-identified.htm

Grand Canyon National Park fire managers plan to conduct two prescribed fires on the South Rim this week. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-09-13_rx.htm

Abandoned Mine Lands Project https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/abandoned-mine-lands-safety-projects-begin-in-grand-canyon-national-park.htm

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In accordance with Grand Canyon National Park's 2010 Fire Management Plan Environmental Impact Statement, park fire managers will begin to expand the use of non-fire treatments to reduce hazardous fuels in the park's wildland-urban interface. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2010-12-09_thinning.htm

Phase II of the improvements called for in the South Rim Visitor Transportation Plan/Environmental Assessment (Transportation Plan) is now substantially complete; and Mather Point and the Visitor Center plaza areas have reopened for public use. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-01-06_phaseii.htm

A kayaker who died yesterday in Grand Canyon National Park has been identified as 42 year-old Scott Foster of Bend, Oregon. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-01-11_ident.htm

Jane Lyder, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, U.S. Department of the Interior, has been named acting superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park. Lyder will assume her new duties in early February. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-01-20_super.htm

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The National Park Service (NPS) continues to work with the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office to refine its search for a plane which may have gone down in Grand Canyon National Park on Friday, March 11. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-03-23_missing.htm

Two hikers were injured yesterday in a human-caused rock fall incident on the South Kaibab Trail below the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/2011-03-30_rock-fall.htm

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Vegetation Program to Apply Herbicide within Developed Areas of Grand Canyon National Park https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/news/vegetation-program-to-apply-herbicide-within-developed-areas-of-grand-canyon-national-park.htm