Dinosaurs and other Mesozoic Life of the Colorado Plateau

Winter Newsletter
A note from our New Executive Director Dear Friends of Partners and Grand Staircase-Escalante, It is with great pleasure that I write my first newsletter piece as the Grand Staircase Escalante Partners (GSEP) Executive Director. Two months into the job and nearly 20 years since I first visited this place, I am struck by the…
January 16, 2020
Legal Action Update
Sign up to get the latest Court News in your inbox Sign Up Now January 9 Filing: On January 9, Plaintiffs’ counsel filed a partial motion for summary judgment in Grand Staircase Escalante Partners v. Trump arguing that the President lacks constitutional or statutory authority to revoke or reduce a national monument. The filing is…
January 13, 2020
Grand Staircase Management Plan
On Friday August 23rd, the BLM released their final management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. This plan reserves no protections for the almost 800,000 acres excluded from the monument in 2017. It opens these area’s to mining, drilling, OHV use and cattle grazing. “The BLM’s management plan attempts to cement the largest roll-back in…
August 26, 2019