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Fog rises from the base of the Straight Cliffs that rise up to the Kaiparowits Plateau in an aerial view of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The protected Bureau of Land Management monument spans across nearly 1.87 million acres of public land from the cliffs and terraces to geologic treasures of slot canyons, natural bridges and arches. It’s remote location and rugged landscape make it an extraordinary unspoiled natural area valued by biologists, paleontologists, archeologists, historians and those who love quiet creation and solitude. Grand Staircase was named the first national monument in 1996.
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- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 6000x4014 / 14.3MB
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aerial view, aerial views, cliffs, color image, cosmic and atmospheric phenomena, day, fog, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, image setting, image type, landscapes, national monument, natural forces and phenomena, no people, north america, number of people, outdoors, photography, rock formations, southwestern states, sunlight, united states, wilderness areas (utah)
- Contained in galleries
- The Big Open_Public Lands_National Geographic magazine and book 8/2001
