Environmental groups call Escalante Canyons National Park proposal 'bait-and-switch'

SALT LAKE CITY — Several environmental groups called the proposed national park in the Grand Staircase-Escalante area a "bait-and-switch" to distract from the Trump administration's attempt to break up the national monument.
"We don't want a fake national park in the Escalante. Nobody wants it," said Scott Berry, co-owner of the Boulder Mountain Inn and a Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners board member.
Residents in Garfield, Kane and Wayne counties like Grand Staircase-Escalante National