A special report by the Tri-City Herald
Published July 2-3, 2000
Stories by Mike
Lee
Photos by André Ranieri
- Southern Utah town split over Escalante's legacy
- Staking a claim to the New West
- Town struggles to merge past, future
- Old land agency trying to beef up for new era
- Land-use debate heats up near Escalante
- Utahns' advice for Mid-Columbia differs dramatically
- Water wars: Escalante ranchers square off against
environmentalists
- Where there's a monument, there's money
- Web resources
Internet resources for the Grand Staircase
Virtual visitors centers with a wide range of information, maps, rules and phone numbers:
- www.desertusa.com/escalante/index.html
- www.go-utah.com/utah/grand-staircase/escalante.html
- www.escalante-cc.com/visitorinfo/index.html
Government sites:
- Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's speeches about land issues - www.doi.gov/secretary/speeches.html
- The Bureau of Land Management's official Grand Staircase home page - www.ut.blm.gov/monument/
- Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt's land use page - www.governor.state.ut.us/html/land_issues.html
Activist groups in Southern Utah:
- Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance - www.suwa.org/
- People for the USA, a land-use advocacy group - www.pfw.org/
- Great Old Broads for Wilderness - www.greatoldbroads.org/
- Utah Association of Counties roads - www.rs2477roads.com/
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