by Jackie Grant | Apr 22, 2026 | Newsroom
The Paria townsite area on the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is home to some incredible geology that reflects a past when water covered the area then receded or evaporated in cycles over thousands of years. These cycles of wetness and dryness laid the...
by Jackie Grant | Mar 10, 2026 | Newsroom
Will the sun set on the Monument’s hard-won 2025 Resource Management Plan?Photo provided by Jackie Grant, 2025. In this briefing, I’ll update you on the latest trick that Utah’s delegation has pulled out of its sleeve to try to undermine the Grand...
by Jason Pulver | Jan 28, 2026 | Newsroom
Will this area near Grosvenor Arch still be part of the Grand Staircase-Escalante Monument at the end of 2026? Not if the Utah delegation has its way. Photo provided by Jackie Grant, 2025. The news that we have been dreading has finally surfaced. The gambit to reduce...
by Jackie Grant | Jan 5, 2026 | Newsroom
Welcome to our new team for 2026!Photo provided by Grand Staircase Escalante Partners, 2025. Here, at the end of the year, I’ll take a few minutes of your time to introduce our new staff and some practices that I’m trying out to recognize cycles in life...
by Jackie Grant | Nov 10, 2025 | Newsroom
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was created to protect its amazing geologic formations such as the Moenkopi Formation. We can recognize this formation by its many stripes, colors of rust reds and orange, and wicked clays that can quickly gum up an...
by Kevin Berend | Aug 26, 2025 | Newsroom, Science From The Steps
Often, we think of plants as inherently inert objects, composing the static background of the environment and incapable of movement, interaction, or influence. However, for one plant this notion could not be further from the truth. In fact, it may just have explored...
