About the Monument
Partners is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, dedicated to raising awareness and resources in support of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s scientific, interpretive, and educational programs.
The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument's vast and austere
landscape embraces a spectacular array of scientific and historic resources. This a high, rugged and remote region, where bold plateaus and multihued cliffs run for distances defying human perspective was the last place in the continental United States to be mapped. These strikingly beautiful and scientifically important lands are divided into three distinct regions: the Grand Staircase, the Kaiparowits Plateau and the Canyons of the Escalante.
Even today, this unspoiled natural area remains a frontier, a quality that greatly enhances the monument's value for scientific study. The monument has a long and dignified human history. It is a place where one can see how nature shapes human endeavors in the American West, where distance and aridity have been pitted against our dreams and courage. The monument presents exemplary opportunities for geologists, paleontologists, archeologists, historians, and biologists.
The Monument is administrated by the Bureau of Land Management, 1.9 million acres of southern Utah and designated a national monument on September 8, 1996. In 2000 the Monument became the first unit of the National Landscape Conservation System.
