Illegal Trash Dumping on Navajo Lands
Date: 11/01/2025
State: CO
Issue: Wild Lands
Partner: Navajo Nation
Airport Origin : Cortez, CO
Mission
Partner with Tribal-led C4Ever Green, a nonprofit that is working to protect sacred landscapes and their ancestral homelands in the Red Masa area through community education and campaigns to end illegal trash dumping.
Fly over Diné Bikéyah between Aneth, Mexican Water and Bluff. Illegal dumping in a sacred landscape is a major problem, and we hope that your group can find workable solutions. On our flight, we traveled over 100 miles and observed the beauty of the San Juan River country. The immense scale of the landscape attests to the challenges and complexities of properly dealing with waste.
Photos from the flight.