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Ancient petroglyphs were shot up, defaced by graffiti or chipped off and stolen.
The natural landscape was marred.
Archaeological sites were destroyed.
Evidence of prehistoric people, disturbed and destroyed.
Gold Butte Culture Walk, Saturday, April 23, 2016, in Gold Butte, Nevada. The fourth annual event is aimed at promoting the need for a national monument for Gold Butte, which is a sacred area to the Southern Paiute people.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/moapa-band-paiute-members-march-protect-gold-butte
Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid took to the U.S. Senate Floor on Thursday (April 7, 2016) to call on President Obama to preserve Gold Butte.
http://letstalknevada.com/harry-reid-pushes-protectgoldbutte/
Special thanks to wonkette
Saturday, the day after Earth Day, members of the Moapa Band of Paiutes and other tribes staged a “culture walk” across 11 miles of Gold Butte to call attention to vandalism of cultural sites, illegal offroading, and ranchers letting cattle onto land where grazing isn’t allowed.
Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument ?
http://wonkette.com/601019/bundy-bu...lyphs-not-a-dick-joke-wonkette-can-get-behind
Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument
April 26, 2016,
The Grand Canyon is under siege
"Mr. President, We respectfully ask to designate the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage as a National Monument."
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/277557-the-grand-canyon-is-under-siege
Why destroy knowledge ?
August 14, 2013
Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have been confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, dating back at least 10,000 years.
The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada’s high desert are similar in design to etchings found at a lake in Oregon that are believed to be at least 7,600 years old. Unlike later drawings that sometimes depict a spear or antelope, the carvings are abstract with tightly clustered geometric designs - some are diamond patterns, others have short parallel lines on top of a longer line.
Whether they turn out to be as old as 14,800 years ago or as recent as 10,500 years ago, they are still the oldest petroglyphs that have been dated in North America,” said Benson, a former research scientist for the U.S. Geological Survey and current curator of anthropology at the University of Colorado Natural History Museum in Boulder.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-and-west/nevada-petroglyphs-oldest-north-america
The natural landscape was marred.
Archaeological sites were destroyed.
Evidence of prehistoric people, disturbed and destroyed.
Gold Butte Culture Walk, Saturday, April 23, 2016, in Gold Butte, Nevada. The fourth annual event is aimed at promoting the need for a national monument for Gold Butte, which is a sacred area to the Southern Paiute people.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada/moapa-band-paiute-members-march-protect-gold-butte
Nevada Democratic Senator Harry Reid took to the U.S. Senate Floor on Thursday (April 7, 2016) to call on President Obama to preserve Gold Butte.
http://letstalknevada.com/harry-reid-pushes-protectgoldbutte/
Special thanks to wonkette
Saturday, the day after Earth Day, members of the Moapa Band of Paiutes and other tribes staged a “culture walk” across 11 miles of Gold Butte to call attention to vandalism of cultural sites, illegal offroading, and ranchers letting cattle onto land where grazing isn’t allowed.
Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument ?
http://wonkette.com/601019/bundy-bu...lyphs-not-a-dick-joke-wonkette-can-get-behind
Grand Canyon National Heritage Monument
April 26, 2016,
The Grand Canyon is under siege
"Mr. President, We respectfully ask to designate the Greater Grand Canyon Heritage as a National Monument."
http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/politics/277557-the-grand-canyon-is-under-siege
Why destroy knowledge ?
August 14, 2013
Ancient rock etchings along a dried-up lake bed in Nevada have been confirmed to be the oldest recorded petroglyphs in North America, dating back at least 10,000 years.
The petroglyphs found on limestone boulders near Pyramid Lake in northern Nevada’s high desert are similar in design to etchings found at a lake in Oregon that are believed to be at least 7,600 years old. Unlike later drawings that sometimes depict a spear or antelope, the carvings are abstract with tightly clustered geometric designs - some are diamond patterns, others have short parallel lines on top of a longer line.
Whether they turn out to be as old as 14,800 years ago or as recent as 10,500 years ago, they are still the oldest petroglyphs that have been dated in North America,” said Benson, a former research scientist for the U.S. Geological Survey and current curator of anthropology at the University of Colorado Natural History Museum in Boulder.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nevada-and-west/nevada-petroglyphs-oldest-north-america
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