The current Department organization consists of the following Programs:

Administration, Air Quality, Agriculture, Environmental Services Forestry, Water Resources, and Wildlife, Fisheries & Parks.

The Hualapai Tribe, (Hwal'Bay), on the Hualapai Reservation, today control a million acres of land along 108 miles of the South Rim of Grand Canyon in northwestern Arizona.  By an Executive Order which created the Reservation in 1883, the Hwal'Bay, the People of the Tall Pines, live in lands of spectacular beauty and variety. 

Our land is one of rolling hills, rugged mesas, breathtaking cliffs, seeps and springs, ponderosa pine forests, deep gorges, and an abundance of wildlife. 

The Hualapai Department of Natural Resources (HDNR) serves as the primary authority over all Natural Resources of the Hualapai Tribe. The Department is entrusted with ensuring the overall goal of long-term sustainable and balanced multiple use of natural resources under the direction of the Hualapai Tribal Council.

The Hualapai Department of Natural Resources strives to ensure the health of the land through a continued goal of education outreach and sustainable management.  The youth of our local community are one our greatest assets for the future of the Hualapai Tribe.

Our goals are to help young people from our local communities become more connected to the environment, engaged in conservation, involved in the community and prepared for a healthy future with resource conservation. We realize our mission and accomplish our goals through initiatives for youth and young adults.

The Department devotes a part of each programs time to help young people learn about the world around them and how they can be a part of conserving and protecting natural resources for future generations to come.

Our programs work to preserve and protect what we have and promote good land management.

We are the land and the land is us.

This is the most fundamental and essential characteristic of Native American culture.  That has to be understood and respected by the management practices of the federal government and all other agencies. We cannot be separated from the land and its cultural significance to us as a people.

The Hualapai People have always held a sacred affiliation with those things which our mother earth has provided for our survival.  This includes all living plants, the wildlife, the waters, the geographic landscapes, and the whole ecological system of our world.

"We have always been

- Delbert Havatone, Chairman past

The Hualapai Department of Natural Resources gives special thanks and appreciation to the Environmental Protection Agency Region IX for partial funding assistance to help create this web site.