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Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument: the politics of environmental preservation.

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From: Parks & Recreation
Date: 19980801
Author:Barbar, Richard M.; Dustin, Daniel L.

President Clinton declared Grand Staircase-Escalante a national monument in 1996, circumventing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. Politicians and environmentalists question the way the issue was handled, even if the outcome seems positive.

At first the terrain is open and undulating, but as we work our way into the gulch the walls begin to close in and tower above us. It is as though with each stride we are going farther and farther back into time and deeper and deeper into geologic history. We are about to encounter, in the words of novelist Sherwood Anderson, "the ...

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