One of the major issues that was raised in the May 1997 sumposium, "Visions of the Grand Staircase-Escalante," was the legal obligations the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) owed to companies and individuals that possessed rights to develop resources within the newly created Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (Monument), and how the protection of those rights interacted with the protection of the environmental values that were at the heart of the establishment of the Monument. The BLM faces difficult challenges in balancing its traditional emphasis on multiple-use with the clear emphasis given to protection in the Antiquities Act and the proclamation establishing the Monument. Published in Journal of Land, Resources, & Environmental [...]