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Show 5 r Trees and rock in Zion National Park (left), and below the sun sets behind desert tree in Canyonlands National Park. ) '. f .. 4 " iv 4 i. -- r ;Vir4 nvc ; 1 Better save photo feature Have you ever been to Zion National Park ? Have you seen Delicate Arch (Arches National Park) at sunrise? Can you answer the question: "Which is more impressive, Dead Horse Point or the Grand Canyon North Rim?" Have you ever walked the Capitol Gorge in Capitol Reef National Park? In othej words, have you ever visited the great desolate area of Southern Utah? If not you had better hurry, for if the Kaiparowitz coal fire furance is built, the area will be changed. Plant life will lose its sparkle, the air its clarity. Fresh water will be less plentiful, coal sludge will fill yet unnamed canyons. Signpost Photo Editor Stephen Matlow has spent the last three early summers hiking and photographing the area that will be effected by Kaiparowitz. His photos are of common scenes that soon will become uncommon. We urge our readers to save this Signpost photo feature, in case they have never been there, or in case they wish their children to see what is soon to disappear behind the dull haze of progress pollution. Matlow says of the area: "Even I, a Western man can understand why the Indians hold this land to be sacred. No temple or cathederal is as impressive. To destory this land is to destroy a house of worship. To me the Sandstones of the South of Utah are the very soul of nature, the perfect religion. To change it by the hand of man would be a desecration." On the TraO in Bryce Canyon National Park IT"1 "- ""- Jf g ,; - u, -Ql I" :'"r- 'rl' Cactus Flower near - - ; , Deadhorse Point J?1' 1 "I - I - ; , . . 54'-. , " t - Storm Clouds Gather Over Arches National Park Patterns of Sun and Rock in Natural Bridges National Monument |