Utah Rock Art: Freemont, Anasazi, Barrier Style Nearly Demolished by Greed for more Oil and Gas in the San Rafael Swell.

Hard to believe that certain elements in the BLM came very close to selling Gas and Oil Leases in the San Rafael Swell that would have either eliminated or impacted these beautiful pictographs.  For now, because of the actions of URARA and other Rock Art preservation groups, including several members of SDRAA, these actions have been curtailed for the moment.  We need to remember that we lost Glen Canyon to the "need" to create Hydroelectric Power.  We nearly lost Davis Canyon and the unique and beautiful Davis Faces to a Nuclear Power plant.  Here in San Diego we lost many of the Rancho Bernardo Rectilinear Mazes to Water Powering systems for urban sprawl.  Home sprinkler systems destroyed many of the mazes before they could even be photographed adequately, let alone studied.  To me and many others, the illusion of Power in the form of destroying nature and these Spiritual Visions are examples of man's emptiness and fear of the Spiritual World.  As a culture, we would do better to amplify our Spiritual communication.  Here are a few examples of spiritual gateways that were up for obliteration.  If this bothers you -- join and support your local Rock Art Society.  Help preserve the spiritual past of the Native Americans before the Euro-American Genocide.  Volunteer to help educate and defend what is left of our wilderness.  If you need a primer for this - read Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. [Click on photo to enlarge it].

 

 

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Don