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Show wv r - t V C V" i Ihc Salt Lake Tribune. Sunday, June 22 r 1, lfJ7. - Ulalm Defends Right To Minin" in Park TS .evwjsa - n:i:r R.rd Ktumos through the tallies ur.d washes of Ins mining daim, his nek as seamed and red'hsh brow" as the terrain, half turning now and again to point out rock outcroppings. What makes this southern Lt'ih projieetor unique is that re claim is in s enic ihe lHti-Capitol Reef National Park Laie ir. April, Mr Bird tipple iapan to sinp-ioMiand (hT building io k stone here, m what Park W Franklin Wallate leapt sins is the only suth opera-tiorn any national park ', lit J: v Wallace said To his credit, he hasnt ilcen all the rock he could nave along the load, he w 'r .A ivrve i v . - i from behind his gas station 4-some yards back from the !" ,j 1 fill future road Hut he says ta orders he may work down toward the road and np hundreds of cubic yards ot stone and earth from the hills. Mr Bird says geologists hove 'old H"' 1b ppj'h be found feet deep in lay ets m the hills on h,s claim. Although Mr. Bird has done more site preparation than pct'al mining p separation iami done mainly because he must A Ripple rock. Mr. Bird explains as he turns over a piece work on the claim to keep it - the woi k hr s drawn pro-to show its wavy mai kings, is tests from park visiors, Mr., sandstone laid down 200 null-ioyears ago atop half dry Wallace sa'd When he gets a baekhoe, a mud rippled by water The landscaper who bought bulldozer and a track up Mr Birds first load of rock there, our front desk people said the stone is in demand are kept busy with comfur facing and landscaping plaints," Mr Wallace said The idv eM ii dishing he The Park Service is disnational park system said the mayed by Mr Bird s ojicra-110,out to in hasi t figured na- ks were to be preserved and protected for the future. out how to stop it. They werent to be for multi- Legal Iase t any control hnvc-pie use at ail, Mr. Wallace "W nf the veople said. he because ocer what does, liie couits have said ins lease cbject are av.are c( the act and ts protective desigu is legal. Mr Wallace said The government tried to They say things like, Why is Imy Mr. Bird out, tried to the Park Service allowing cancel the lease, and filed this park to be desecrated s i suit to nullify Uie lease. It and vandalized? Mr Wallace said hp succeeded m obtaining a io numerous requests for straining order against the from congressinformation 10th ihe then Put mining. Circut Court of Appeals m men whose constituents have 1 ' vfix 3 Denver ruled last summer returned home fron. vacathat Mr. Bird had a Irgit: tions. Takes No Position mate right to dig up minerals June Viavant, a member of on the land The government has been stymied, at least the Uinta Chapter of the Sierra Club in Salt Lake City temporarily. The prospector and a national board also owns the Capitol Reef member, said tr.e club has Lodge on a 2 5 acre private taken no position on the ft- ice. enclave m park land, another mining. But sne said she wonders why the Park Sersore spot for the government He began mining by vice and Bureau of Laid scraping up a 23 5 ton load of Mangement have not been stone with a baekhoe April 23. able to work out a trade wi'h That load of rock was Bird for a lease outside the tria ked 230 n.ilt-- north to a park Mr. Bird says he doesnt Salt Lake City suburb Mr. Bird says he has orders for feel any compunction about four more truckloads ad mining the land. He acquired a business intends to fill them section of lease for a Mot;t Panned The area Mr. bird has land from the state in 1964, piuicipally, he said, because actually mined isn't large not more than a few square his Capitol Reef Lodge is set yards of earth have been back from the highway. He r'fi U disturbed thus far. Nearby, wanted to bund a gas station he has gouged dowu two and motel on the road to MgjSt' mounds with bulldozers He attract passing traffic g business he a the After hell got put says operation there or perhaps lease, Mr. Bird filed for build a motel. mining lights on the northThe mining is being done east quarter cf the section only 800 yards from the park That lease, too, was adminisv isitors center and is just off tered by the state, but the I tan z4. Mr. Wallace say-- ' entire sctiou "was turned despite its present small over to the Park Service in a scope, it disturbs not only the land exchange m 1971 The Cap.tol Reef lease isn t Park Sendee but also visthe first mineral speculation itors "These area are irretneva Bird has dmie Hp said lie bly damaged, and that recently sold mining rights bothers us, especially along near the Circle Cliffs south of Vi the road where most of the the park to a Oaper. 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