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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Julia Musto

A beloved national monument is under threat from Utah Republicans. Activists are calling to save the ‘crown jewel’

A beloved destination for more than 900,000 visitors each year, the Grand-Staircase-Escalante National Monument stretches across more than 1.8. million pristine acres of Southern Utah’s wilderness.

With ties to six Native American tribes, the stunning landscape of slot canyons and desert is home to more than 600 species of bees and fossils have been uncovered from at least 15 dinosaur species found nowhere else on Earth.

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