Diné CARE

Originally called CARE, the group was founded in 1988 to prevent the construction of a hazardous waste incinerator in the community of Dilkon on the Navajo Nation.

Leroy Jackson, who received death threats in response to his work to reform the logging industry's operations on the Chuska Mountains, died in 1994.

[1][10][16]Diné CARE led a successful anti-logging campaign against Navajo Forest Project Industries (NFPI), largely organized by Leroy Jackson.

In May of 1992, an administrative appeal with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) was filed to prevent further timber sales of the NFPI, which was eventually rejected but succeeded in stalling logging in the area.

[10] In February of 2024, three proposed hydropower storage projects to be located southeast of Kayenta were rejected by federal officials, saving around 40 miles of the Black Mesa from destruction.

Map of United States Southwest with Navajo Nation colored in red.
Map of the Navajo Nation.
Three men sitting and four men standing while one of them signs a document.
Diné CARE co-founder Earl Tulley, at left, in 2012.
Shaded-relief map of the Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation, marking where abandoned uranium mines are located in yellow. Marked in orange are the six regions where mines were clustered: North Central, Northern, Central, Eastern, Southern, and Western.
Pine trees with mountainous background
Pine forests in the Chuska Mountains on the Navajo Nation.