Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A U.S. Senator from Illinois is proposing that large swaths of southern Utah be protected as wilderness areas. Sen. Dick Durbin (D ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sandstone cliff walls of Labyrinth Canyon are seen near Moab, Utah. (Photo by Arthur Grumankin via Getty Images) A number of oil ...

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A beloved destination for more than 900,000 visitors each year, the Grand-Staircase-Escalante National Monument stretches across more than 1.8. million pristine acres of Southern Utah’s wilderness.

The canyon country along the Colorado River and its tributaries shelters an incredible array of beloved national parks and monuments, wild rivers and protected wilderness areas. These public lands are ...