When U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt declared over 800,000 acres of land in the Grand Canyon, Arizona, a national monument in 1908, he emphasized the need to take care of it.   He urged Americans to protect it in its natural state so it could be preserved for future generations,

The Grand Canyon Lodge was one of dozens of structures destroyed in a fast-moving wildfire in Arizona over the weekend, the National Park Service confirmed.

Drought, a warming climate and decades of firefighting policies that suppressed natural fires have turned many grasslands and forests across the West into tinderboxes.