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(Stefani Day | Tribune file photo) Hackberry Canyon, in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument is photographed May, 1999... (Jim Urquhart | Tribune file photo) Aubriana Fumagali, 15, of Boca Raton, Florida, left, and Mary Baker, 15, of Washington DC... (Brett Prettyman | Tribune file photo) Grosvenor Arch near Kodachrome Basin State Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante National... (Photo courtesy Jerry Roundy) Dance Hall Rock near Hole in the Rock Road at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument is ph... (Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) Hikers cool off beneath Calf Creek Falls in Escalante National Monument in May, 2009. (Lennie Mahler | Tribune file photo) Scott Radford navigates the silty Paria River on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. (Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) Lower Death Hollow is photographed February 12, 1986. (Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) From left, Escalante residents Jana Richman, Carol Kracht and Nate Waggoner hike the Litt... (Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) Small side canyon of the Escalante River sparkles in the morning light, September 17, 1996... (Greg Willis | Courtesy Wikimedia Commons) The Straight Cliffs loom above the the southern Utah town Escalante is pictured De... (Paul Fraughton | Tribune file photo) Harris Wash near the town of Escalante is photographed June 21, 2006. (Al Hartmann | Tribune file photo) Broken country of scrub and sandstone washes on top of the Kaiparowits Plateau in the Gran... (Photo courtesy Manny Mellor) Spooky Gulch in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. (Photo courtesy Jerry Roundy) Hole in the Rock Road at Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument is photographed in May, 20... (Tribune file photo) Peek-a-boo Gulch, a narrow tributary canyon of Dry Fork Canyon, is photographed October, 2012. (Leah Hogsten | Tribune file photo) Escalante residents hike the Little Valley Wash, Saturday, March 29, 2014 to inspect the ...