Utah Monument Leaves Residents Bitter
27 November 2000 - 11:00am
New tourist monuments don't always have the desired effect. In Utah, the new monument resulted in lost jobs.
"The people who live in Escalante and the other tiny Utah towns sprinkled along the rim of the 1.9 million-acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, created in 1996, haven't seen the vaunted increase in tourism dollars. However, they say, they have seen the locals' traditional use of the land come under greater scrutiny and tighter restrictions."
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New monument leaves locals 'bitter'
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The Denver Post, November 26, 2000
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