Sadly, this Monument has now been cut into three small monuments, totaling only half its former size, and opening one million acres of once-protected lands to mining, fracking, and other industrialization. A court case has been filed to re-instate the Monument.
We each need to continue to speak up in defense of our wild lands before they are all gone.
Photographer: John Fowler / Wikipedia / This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license./ Metate Arch in Grand Staircase-Escalante national Monument
Thanks to Carolyn Shelton for sending this video and for her role in its creation.
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