Press Releases

This week, the Biden Administration announced its approval of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Resource Management Plan and issued a final Record of Decision. U.S. Senators Mike Lee (R-UT) and John Curtis (R-UT) and Representatives Blake Moore (UT-01), Burgess Owens (UT-04), Celeste Maloy (UT-02) and Mike Kennedy (UT-03) released the following joint statement:

“In its midnight hours, the Biden administration has finalized a decision that mandates how the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument will be managed on its 1.87 million acres of land. The BLM’s plan ignores Utah voices, limits access to grazing and recreation and disregards the economic impacts that this decision will have on local communities. The administration has also failed to provide a complete inventory of the objects it wishes to protect, a requirement of the Antiquities Act. When the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument was created in 1996, it was promised to be friendly to local use and management. We will continue to fight to return our land to local control and against future federal overreach.”