And Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah is yet again at the center of the renewed threats to the nation’s monuments. Now Utah’s elected officials want to flush that effort down the toilet—a situation that benefits no one.”Downsizing or rescinding national monuments has been a major goal of the Trump administration. The Trump administration eliminated the two most recently created national monuments in California, but then walked back that decision. The administration’s threats to the nation’s national monuments have been met with protests across the country. But those previous decisions were all for general, multi-use public lands, not national monuments.