What is there to protect in the Grand Staircase-Escalante?
There are millions of years of history and evolution in the mountains, valleys and buttes of the Grand Staircase-Escalante, including geology, world class fossils, archeological sites and hundreds of species of animals and plants; many of which are unique. The Grand Staircase protects world class paleontological sites and over 20,000 archeological sites. Clues to un-answered problems about global warming and why dinosaurs did die-off are even believed to be contained in the Grand Staircase-Escalante. To obtain the BLM’s goal of preserving these important sites, the areas that are open to the public are limited. Digging up unusual Dinosaur bones Digs in the Grand Staircase-Escalante have uncovered rare or unknown species of dinosaurs like the duck-billed Crested Hadrosaur, the horned dinosaur Ceratopsians, the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaur, the Therizinosaurid dinosaur, an early Tyrannosaur and at least two new species of giant crocodiles. Preserving the Paleoecological Story Ge
