Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument

will be paved in the park to increase tourism. He is horrified at the aspect of a new road because he sees automobiles as an enemy to the National Park industry. To Abbey, cars limit tourists from actually see the land, stating that a short distance on bike or foot is much more appreciated than a very long distance in a car. He also suggests a new plan for national parks in order to preserve their authenticity. Abbey thinks that tourists should travel to the campsites

to Lava Bed National Monument. He should approve a field trip to the monument, because it seems like a wonderful place we should go on for our field trip. The Lava Bed National Monument is between the states of California and Oregon, but it is actually located in the state of California. That is a very long, extensive drive, but the national monument is worth to take the time out and go to. The Lava Bed National Monument is 47,000 acres

President Trump has decided to reduce two national monuments, the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah, “in the largest reduction of public lands in U.S. history” (Washington Post). He plans to reduce Bears Ears by 1.1 million acres and Grand Staircase-Escalante by 800,000 acres in order to make land for potential energy extraction or outdoor excursions. Bears Ears contains thousands of intact archaeological, cultural and ritual sites. The monument is said to be managed by just the Forest

Recently there has been much controversy in Garfield county due to talk of downsizing the grand national staircase. One of, if not the, most visited sites in Escalante, Utah Is the Grand Staircase National Monument. Stretching, right now, at about 1.9 million acres, the monument consists of beautiful slot canyons, national parks, and multiple lakes and/or rivers. With Utah being known for its national parks and beautiful scenery there is a lot of commotion being brought up with this new resolution

the Cretaceous Period. Only recently, however, have we learned that most of these dinosaurs existed on a “lost continent” today referred to as ‘Laramidia”. (Switek, 2010) Two new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern Utah. The bigger of the two new dinosaurs, Utahceratops gettyi, had a skull 2.3 meter (around 7 feet) long. The first part of the name combines the origin of the find and ceratops, Greek for “horned face”. The second

which deemed the Bear Ears regions as a National Monument protected by the antiquities act. There was great outrage and celebration over this decision. In fact, according to a pole, 60% of Utah citizens were in favor of the monument according to Luekart. However, in 2017, the Trump administration restored land rights back to Utah citizens of 1.3 million acres of that land. The other national monument reduction regards the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument, which was approximately 2 million acres

We are already seeing the consequences of global climate change all over the world. Severe storms, flooding, heat waves, drought, and rising sea levels are all manifestations of climate change. Scientists are now more certain than ever that the current warming trends are anthropogenic, the direct cause of pumping billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere while simultaneously destroying natural carbon sinks. Despite the overwhelming evidence, industry and the desire to burn

route passes through some of the most rugged and breathtaking, awe-inspiring landscapes in the world. The trail encompass in the route Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon, Grand Canyon and Zion National Parks, Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and numerous national forests, and wilderness

Although other presidents have reduced National Parks, Trump’s reduction plan exceeds the federal allowance and may cross the line of what is legal and what is not. Not only do the Navajo Nation find this land sacred, four other local Utah tribes find this a direct violation and state that, “Trump