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Nolan

Ruined Ruins!

Journal Entry: Sat May 3, 2008, 12:17 PM

So very sad and dissappointing. On my last trip we went back to canyonlands national park and on the last day there we hiked back to an ancient indian granary nestled in the side of a cliff that i had shot before as some of you may remember :

While we were goin down the trail we noticed that there were kids footprints all over the residual granaries before the main one. As we can to the main granary we saw this:

Very depressing indeed. And what might have caused this destruction of an artifact so rare and well preserved. PARENTS!!! That right PARENTS!!! PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!

As we came to the granary we couldnt help but notice that the INSIDE of the granary was littered with childrens footprints. This event had to have happened within a couple days of us going there. So INSIDE the granary had numerous children footprints and underneath the rocks that formed the wall now laying on the ground were numerous children footprints.

So who detroyed this precious relic? PARENTS!!!!!!

Now I highlyt doubt that any of my fans here on dA receiving this journal need to here this, but this is a subject very close to me and i feel i need to say something about this.

Parents- WTF are you thinking letting your children climb in and out of an ancient granary in a NATIONAL PARK. I mean are you serious?
I do not blame the children directly for this destruction. If I was child i would want to play in them too. Im afraid the blame lies with IRRESPONSIBLE, DISRESPECTFUL Parents who let their children do as they please.

CONTROL YOUR DAMN KIDS! NATIONAL PARK ARE NOT PLAYGROUNDS!

So thank you IRRESPONSIBLE PARENTS for helping in destroying a part of human history, native american history, and an overall precious jewel of an ancient civilization.

Where is the park service when you need em?

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~bear48

May 3, 2008, 1:32:15 PM

so very sad

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May 3, 2008, 1:41:40 PM

Holy crap, I didn't even recognize that as the same location. Crying shame.

I'm normally not a very violent person, but it's enough to make you want to hurt people. When I was out in the Escalante visiting Peek-a-Boo, someone had thought it would be a great idea to draw arrows on the walls every few feet with a rock. Stuff like that will eventually wash away, but who would go out to the middle of nowhere and vandalize such a unique and beautiful location?! That was during the beginning of the dry season, so those marks are going to be there for many many months.

Though that's not anything compared to the destruction documented by your photos. I can certainly identify with the feeling though.

~MystiqueDeep

May 3, 2008, 1:49:09 PM

A few years ago somebody started defacing the Native American writings on the rocks at Celebration Park. They actually chiselled away the outer layer of a few rocks and took the petroglyphs. That's stopped for a few years, but still it's very sad what people will do.

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May 3, 2008, 2:50:41 PM

Wow, thats lame. Dissapointing indeed.

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May 3, 2008, 3:15:53 PM

it is very sad that its destroyed

and i agree with you 100% because lots of my friends' parents are lazy and irresponsible and let them do whatever they want

... well put!

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~collectiveone

May 3, 2008, 4:14:10 PM

OMG! Jimmy get in the grainery so I can take pic-ture! Yeah it was a bum deal.

=rocamiadesign

May 3, 2008, 8:07:51 PM

People are stupid! There's no excuse for their behavior. I remember going to an ancient home in Santa Fe, and people had written graffiti all over the walls. Here, in Glacier Park, I watched parents who let their children follow a sow black bear with her cubs, while they took pictures. If the mother bear had tried to defend her cubs, the park service would have been forced to shoot her.

=kayaksailor

May 3, 2008, 8:25:47 PM

Aarrggh! Shoot the parents!!!! I've got the same feelings as Nolan for parental responsibility - to the point that my 18 year old daughter is doing a college english paper on Parental Responsibilty on Violent Youth... of the 75 articles that she's read for research only 3 put the blame on the parents all the rest put the blame on the media and video games with no mention of parental control of childrens time. And all the research studies blame the media/gaming, too! No one wants to put the blame (read that responsibility!) where it belongs!

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May 3, 2008, 8:52:27 PM

i completely agree!!! RESPECT the ruins, nature, the way things are!! do not destroy things that are old and precious to the eyes of the wondering! aw... it really is a shame