Grand Staircase-Escalante was cut back from nearly 1.9 million acres to three units, the 211,983-acre Grand Staircase, the 551,117-acre Kaiparowits, and the 243,241-acre Escalante Canyons.

The Trump administration is looking at scaling back protections for two national monuments in southern Utah, The Washington Post reported Thursday morning, according to “two people familiar with the ...