History of the Grand Canyon
"The region is, of course, altogether valueless … after entering it there is nothing to do but leave. Ours has been the first, and will doubtless be the last, party of whites to visit this profitless ...
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Big Katuna wrote:azdryheat wrote:
Really?! People getting blocked on a Grand Canyon thread? Too funny. My own view of the canyon is there is too much government regulation, as there is with all of the government run parks. Government forgets who owns the parks - we the people do.
Sadly, we need to protect publicly owned treasures from ourselves.
Without regulation and enforcement there would be beer cans, feces, tp and Twinkie wrappers everywhere.
Or the morons that tipped the rocks off their pedestals in Utah.
The Petrified Forest was denuded one souvenir rock at a time.
I thought they were building something like a "Super mall" and a (housing) development right there by/at the rim of the GC. Many tribes are opposing it. Ol' Teddy Roosevelt (who loved the GC and said to leave it Untouched and declared it a Nat'l Monument) is turning in his grave.
