Bush Administration takes (another) last swipe at Utah
Another in the series of Utah Bureau of Land Management Plans has been released, this one covering the portion of southeast Utah south of Moab and east of the Colorado River. The Salt Lake Tribune editorial describes the Monticello District's Resource Management Planlike this:
"The BLM says it can better enforce rules prohibiting human contact with the remains of Anasazi dwellings and relics under the new designation. That's ludicrous. The BLM has one enforcement officer for the entire Monticello region. Inviting more visitors and making it easier for looters and vandals to find the ruins, without beefing up enforcement, sounds a death knell for these archaeological treasures.
"In its single-minded focus on opening up all public lands--even those that are home to irreplaceable artifacts--to motorized
recreation and development, it is willing to sacrifice other values
that are important to Americans.
"The BLM seems oblivious to the value and unique nature of these ruins. The agency insists it can educate visitors about the fragility of the ruins while allowing them free rein to run roughshod over the area. Nonsense."
Click here to read the rest of the editorial.
Here are a couple of photographs of Arch Canyon, one of the major archaeological sites subject to San Juan County's illegal bulldozing campaign:
Links to some other photos of the area:
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