DAVID CONDOS, BYLINE: Picture a deer drinking from a quiet stream in the Red Rock Canyon country of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument ... retired national park ranger Bill Wolverton ...

DAVID CONDOS, BYLINE: Picture a deer drinking from a quiet stream in the Red Rock Canyon country of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Now ... the Escalante River looked when retired ...

Removing the monument designation from millions of acres strips those areas from protections akin to a national park ... Getty Images Devil's Garden Hoodoos, Grand Staircase Escalante, Utah.

Ultimately, Trump zeroed in on two Utah monuments — slashing more than 2 million acres from the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante ... 1,350-acre Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming ...

Located south of Joshua Tree National Park, 640,000-acre ... in Utah — Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — and stripped protections from a marine monument off the coast of New England ...

However, by Saturday afternoon the reference to national monuments had been removed from the webpage. During his first term, Trump in 2017 reduced Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national ...