The mega-monument that almost was

How proto-Sagebrush Rebels and ranchers killed an effort to protect Canyon Country

View into the heart of what would have been Escalante National Monument. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

(Ed’s note: Parts of the following are excerpted and adapted from Sagebrush Empire my non-fiction book about the public land battles in southeast Utah published by Torrey House Press. Sign up as a Founding Member of the Land Desk and get a free signed co…