Canyon de Chelly NM

Canyon de Chelly National Monument preserves archaeological, historical, cultural and natural resources representing nearly 4000 years of human occupation by Ancestral Pueblo Indians, and historic and modern-day Navajo peoples. However, invasive plant infestations of tamarisk and Russian olive trees have altered stream channels and riparian ecosystems, and threaten traditional farming and ethnological uses by Navajo peoples. This video, created by Yffy Yossifor, Cassandra Chee and Brittany Tabor, chronicles how the National Park Service worked with residents of the canyon to restore it to the condition that the Navajo elders remember, when vegetation did not choke the canyon floor, and the canyon was visible from wall to wall.