Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Chaco Canyon, in northwestern New Mexico, is the setting for one of the largest ancestral Pueblo communities in the southwest.

In the newest installment of Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony recounts a trip he took to Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico with a team of scientists. Scott and the team braved a rock climb and bone-chilling cold to record a rare lunar phenomenon.

New oil and natural gas leasing will be prohibited on state land surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park, an area sacred to Native Americans, for the next 20 years under an executive order.

The key committee in the U.S. House has approved a bill that would reverse the Biden administration’s recent ban on oil and gas drilling near Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

A U.S. House bill under consideration would reverse protections put in place last month by the Department of the Interior near Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Protesters blocked an entrance to Chaco Culture National Historical Park Sunday in advance of U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s visit.

A coalition of House Republicans has signed a letter that calls for an investigation into Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland’s work with the Pueblo Action Alliance, a New Mexico advocacy group opposed to drilling near Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Navajo Nation officials criticized the U.S. Department of the Interior for protecting a swath of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico from new oil and gas leasing for the next 20 years. They say the decision undermines tribal sovereignty.

The Biden administration is implementing a 20-year withdrawal banning oil and gas development outside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico.

Members of New Mexico's congressional delegation are again pushing to make permanent a stop on oil and gas development outside the boundaries of Chaco Culture National Historical Park.