Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument Boundaries

According to this draft proposal bears ears national monument would be reduced by 85 percent from its current 135 million acres to 201397 acres.

Grand staircase escalante national monument boundaries. Deep within this vast and austere landscape the anasazi and fremont cultures made contact in the period ad 950 1100 leaving behind rock art panels occupation sites campsites and granaries. The president also said he would cut the 188 million acre grand staircase escalante national monument designated by president bill clinton in 1996 nearly in half. The grand staircaseescalante national monument gsenm is a united states national monument originally designated in 1996 as 1880461 acres 7610 km 2 of protected land in southern utahin 2017 the monuments size was reduced by a succeeding presidential proclamationthe land is among the most remote in the country. Grand staircase escalante national monument flickr album the monument is an outstanding biological resource spanning five life zones from low lying desert to coniferous forest.

On november 30th the wilderness society and the native american rights fund obtained leaked maps from the department of interior showing the boundary changes president trump plans to make in both bears ears and grand staircase escalante national monument. Grand staircase escalante would be cut by half. Especially in light of the research conducted since designation i find that the current boundaries of the grand staircase escalante national monument established by proclamation 6920 are greater. Download your copy maps may be used for non commercial purposes provided that they are not altered or edited and they are appropriately credited.

It was the last to be mapped in the contiguous united states. All other lands that were covered by the grand staircaseescalante national monument designation retain their existing level of federal protection. See maps of the monuments. Using those maps i transcribed the boundaries onto an interactive map with gis data also supplied from the state of utah.

Boundary modifications for bears ears and grand staircase escalante national monuments. The three smaller regions all fall within the former monument designations boundaries.