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General description
Threats
Access,
hiking maps & info.
Flora
& fauna
Geology
Archaeology
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Vermillion Cliffs National Monument is
a 293,000-acre monument located in northern Arizona, and
includes the Paria Canyon-Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness.
The monument is quite remote and has therefore been
protected from some of the more destructive forces of human
beings. It contains desert grasslands and provides habitat for a
number of species including desert bighorn sheep, pronghorns,
and one threatened species of plant
-- Welsh's milkweed.
The monument is also home to at least twenty species of
raptors including California Condors, which have been
reintroduced into the region.
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