CPAA and its executive director have worked closely with Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument since its creation in 1996, producing comprehensive overviews of the region’s prehistory in 2001 and 2021. CPAA also conducted the first inventory of the upper Paria River, completed surveys and excavations in Johnson Canyon, helped the Monument develop an environmental plan to accommodate grazing, and initiated research in the remote Kaiparowits Plateau region. These projects have contributed new insights into how humans used this remarkable landscape, from the earliest hunter-gatherers to Ancestral Puebloans to the Southern Paiute who still live in the area. A detailed account of the first Euro-American settlers by CPAA Executive Director Jerry Spangler and historian Mark Miller, Red Rock and Rawhide, was recently published by the University of Utah Press. Retired Monument archaeologist Matt Zweifel currently serves on CPAA’s board of directors.