Representatives of six Southwestern Tribes have formed a coalition to defend Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in ...

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.

“Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a landscape cherished by Americans across the political spectrum. Every reduction to the monument chips away at the scientific, cultural, and ...

President Bill Clinton used that authority to create Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 1996, as did President Barack Obama when he established Bears Ears National Monument in 2016.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed Friday the administration is reviewing the boundaries of several national monuments — meaning it eventually could move to shrink them. “When we’re taking a ...

Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante — national monuments spread across Arizona, California, New Mexico and Utah. Interior Department officials are poring over geological maps to analyze the ...

In 2022, the Republican-led state of Utah sued over the creation of Bears Ears National Monument by President Obama and his expansion of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, alleging that ...

The legacy and controversy related to Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument stretches back even longer. It was in 1996 when President Bill Clinton, in front of a desk perched in the neighboring ...

According to the three, the area "supports a delicate desert ecosystem and a landscape enclosed in cliff walls, rich in Triassic era fossil deposits, which is unique and was included in Grand ...