The Four Corners
A thousand years ago, this region was the center of an incredibly complex and influential civilization that flourished over several centuries throughout the entire Southwest. The Ancestral Puebloans, along with other tribal groups, occupied this land and inhabited sites such as Mesa Verde, Chaco Canyon and Canyon de Chelly. Today, the region is home to the descendants of these tribes, many of whom have a strong connection to these important cultural sites.
From the dry desert ecosystem at Chaco Canyon to the pinyon-juniper woodlands at Mesa Verde, the geographic isolation of these parks offers visitors the ability to get off the beaten path to find solitude away from big crowds.
Check out just a small fraction of the Center s recent victories.
NATIONAL WINS
With allies, we defeated an illegal attempt to gut the Migratory Bird Treaty Act that would have let polluters off the hook for killing birds.
After a 13-year battle, we stopped the rubber-stamping of permits for coal mining in the habitat of endangered species nationwide.
The Center and allies scored a legal victory that ended the rapid-fire approvals of stream-crossing permits (NWP 12) for pipelines that halted Keystone XL and temporarily halted other new pipeline crossings nationwide. Public pressure and multiple lawsuits led to the cancellation of the Atlantic Coast pipeline, denial of a key permit for the Mountain Valley Pipeline Southgate extension, and the shutdown of the Dakota Access pipeline until further review.