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Grand Staircase-Escalante, Utah, 1998

Photo: Grand Staircase-Escalante
Hikers stop to take in the view at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The largest national monument outside of Alaska, at 1.9 million acres (768,903 hectares) it is approximately the size of Delaware.

(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Grand Staircase-Escalante: Celebrating Canyon Country," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
Photograph by Len Jenshel

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