Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Biocrust Survey

From 2014 to 2015, Grand Canyon Trust staff, interns, student groups, and volunteers, with assistance from Western Watersheds Project and Great Old Broads for Wilderness staff, completed a survey of biological soil crust (biocrust) conditions throughout Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.Grand Staircase-Escalante biocrust survey

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