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Article: PROTECT RUINS, VERIFY CLAIMS SECURE SITE AGAINST THREATS.(Commentary/Editorial)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- July 11, 2004
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Two years ago, Waldo Wilcox sold his 4,200 remote Utah acres, rich in ruins of ancient Indian villages, the artifacts of their daily life and their graves. He had kept this archaeological treasure safe for half a century by keeping it secret, but now that the secret is no more, vultures are beginning to descend on the site to pick it clean.
State and federal officials in Utah said the other day that they believed several items, including stone blades and a fragment of a pottery jar, have been stolen.
The first priority, therefore, must be to make the Range Creek site secure. Not that officials don't know that, of course, but most of the land now belongs ...