Show THOUGHTS OF A ey by frank silvey the importance of protecting our natural wonders in hk southeastern utah few districts in the united states have the natural wonders unmolested L by V man as we have licie hoie in ili southeastern utah and this especially applies to san juan county with its square miles totaling more than five million acres of land and with a total population of about thirty three hundred pe people orle four tenths per square raile mile one can easily see that we are living in an isolated district some unthinking vandals in the ot have not respected historic nature in the eastern part of san they have defaced and destroyed ore eire of our ruins and carried away hundreds of pieces of pottery and other rare prehistoric relics in the western part of the county r along cataract canyon of the colorado k river in in some of its practically unexplored and unmapped districts i xe ve still have untouched territory for the archaeologist the scientist entis t and till nil who are interested in exploring w territory let us all cooperate t veep vandals from exploiting this wo ib new territory officers few n number are helpless to protect i our district from vandalism unless all citizens fully operate cooperate co with them in this matter of protecting our great I 1 prehistoric ruins and relics i let us see what vandals have done in the past two years in our sister county grand H A wood photographer of moab has in the past nine years tramped many miles to isolated spots near moab to get hun deeds of photos of scenic wonders rin in that district among these photos i were a number of pictures of hiero glyph ies taken down the colorado calora d 0 liver a few miles below moa h un all of cf these woid erfil ilias were burned up by ous boys during mr woods absence from home thus destroying forever ill his untiring efforts to keep them or future reference last march mr wood made a trip to retake these Aliese hieroglyphics and was dismayed cism ed to find all he visited were so defaced and marred that he returned home me disgusted and without taking ciny any pictures these hiero of a supposedly prehistoric i ice ace ate abc lost forever the maii I 1 r rocker c r knows of cf some hieroglyphics on n indian dian I 1 creek reek and other districts i that vandals have not yet found but I 1 may in the future find and also de 1 face S so 0 let us all take an interest and try to put a stop to this vandal ism 1 I 1 there is a united states law lav against this vandalism but without i co ci operation oie ration by every good citizen it cannot candle e enforced people of south eastin bastein utah let us protect our ria na 1 1 dional resources our wild game and fish from unthinking persons who would woula destroy forever ou our wonders c i nature |