Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument encompasses approximately 1.9 million acres in southern Utah and protects an extraordinary landscape of cultural, archaeological, ecological, and geological significance. The Monument contains thousands of cultural sites, including ancestral dwellings, petroglyphs, trails, and sacred places, as well as important wildlife habitat, springs, and native plant communities.
The Monument was designated to protect these irreplaceable resources and to ensure that this nationally significant landscape is managed in a way that reflects its cultural and natural importance.
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