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Shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a disaster for paleontology

  • Written by P. David Polly, Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Biology, and Anthropology, Indiana University
Shrinking the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is a disaster for paleontologyLandscape of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of the most abundant fossil fields in the world.P. David Polly, 2018, CC BY-ND

In the early 1980s, paleontologists Jeff Eaton and Rich Cifelli started digging for fossils in one of the most inaccessible regions of the United States: the Kaiparowits Plateau of southern...

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