“Grand Staircase Escalante” is the tenth layout of the Radavist 2022 Calendar. It was shot with a Sony A9ii and a Tamron 28-200 lens in Southern Utah.

“The Grand Staircase Escalante was on the chopping block from 2016-2020 for mineral extraction, yet on Oct. 8, 2021, President Biden issued Presidential Proclamation 10286 restoring the boundaries for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The Monument now spans across nearly 1.87 million acres of America’s public lands in southern Utah, and is an outstanding biological resource, spanning five life-zones – from low-lying desert to coniferous forest.

When visiting, you’ll be traveling the land of the Ancestral Puebloan and Fremont people, who were experts at farming this rugged land and built granaries to store what they grew. Their descendants, including people from the Hopi, Paiute, Zuni, Ute, and Navajo tribes, have strong ties to this land today, leaving behind rock art panels, occupation sites, campsites and granaries. We’ll be taking a longer look at this zone next week…”

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