Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: 27 Monuments Stop #5

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Burr Trail. Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. Utah. May 14, 2016.
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Take a day off? So far behind in everything! Forget the family, forget other projects... Save the monuments!  Okay, so I might not be as fanatical as that.

But Brent Rose is burning his midnight oil traveling, filming, and editing these videos.  His fifth stop is one of my favorite places in the United States, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which also happens to be one of the inspirations for the monument review, and one of the monuments in the biggest danger of reduction or elimination.

I'll be sharing a lot of content about this very special place over the next few weeks, but I'll let Rose take over for today.

All I want right now is to be back in this pool. It got up to 114F today, driving more than 100 miles on dirt roads. It was punishing in every way. I Didn't see another car the entire day I was out, which would normally be wonderful, but when it's this hot it becomes a bit more scary. Sometimes I have to remind myself that this isn't about having fun or being comfortable. It's not a vacation. We've got monuments to save, damnit, so let's save them. #27Monuments #MonumentsForAll #ConnectedStates

A post shared by Brent Rose (@brentdangerrose) on Jun 20, 2017 at 8:21pm PDT

BLM: Grand Staircase-Escalante (as of June 2017) - PDF

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5qJHnJC9HuAM1ZrM3psQk5ucHc/view

To comment on the monument review process (due July 10, 2017):

https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=DOI-2017-0002-0001 

Links

27 Monuments:

Website

https://www.27monuments.org

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/27Monuments

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/brentdangerrose
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/27monuments

Rubble - National Monuments in Danger:

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/monuments/grand-staircase-escalante


NPR: What Utah's Canyon Country Can Tell Us About Trump's Monuments Review (June 10, 2017)

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/10/532264595/what-utahs-canyon-country-can-tell-us-about-trumps-monuments-review


Inside Science: 

Contested National Monuments in Utah House Treasure Troves of Fossils (June 13, 2017)

Paleontologists have found incredible dinosaur diversity at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. What could nearby Bears Ears hold?

https://www.insidescience.org/news/contested-national-monuments-utah-house-treasure-troves-fossils

Deseret News: Leave Grand Escalante and Bears Ears as they are (May 4, 2017)

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865679240/Op-ed-Leave-Grand-Escalante-and-Bears-Ears-as-they-are.html

Salt Lake Tribune: 

Bears Ears critics' numbers are misleading: A look at early monument sizes (May 30, 2017)

http://www.sltrib.com/news/5323050-155/stand-with-bears-ears-or-shrink

Editorial: Utah’s national monuments have already justified themselves (April 28, 2017)

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/5226144-155/tribune-editorial-utahs-national-monuments-have?fullpage=1

Leaked documents show Trump administration plans more mining and drilling on public lands (April 11, 2017)

https://thinkprogress.org/blm-priorities-document-91917fc0fca9

BLM: 

Website: 

https://www.blm.gov/programs/national-conservation-lands/utah/grand-staircase-escalante-national-monument

National Monuments in Danger

https://sites.google.com/view/nationalmonumentsindanger/home