I'm convinced the "public" and the "government" can't conserve anything.

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Allowing the public into conservation sites sucks.

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You and I both know that half of the population, give-or-take, are ineducable.

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Let’s just get right to chemtrails on page 1.

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I like conservation easements which don't allow public access. They are great conservation tools.

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Well no, not technically. But it's against federal law to abuse the land, it needs to be strictly enforced. I understand that it's difficult to patrol but it should be the States responsibility to staff the parks.

It's a shame more people aren't willing to volunteer.

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But the outspoken rancher has become something of an embarrassment to the new stewards, as he freely expresses his concerns over their management, vandalism by others, artifact removal, dusty roads and dried-out fields.

“They was always bragging about their educations,” Wilcox says. “But I was always having to straighten them out.”

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The new landowner, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, has stopped irrigating and grazing the fields, so the grasses are overgrown and dried out, a fire hazard, he says, especially with all the archaeologists around who smoke.

Derris Jones, Wildlife Resources’ regional supervisor, says the state irrigates what it legally can with water rights for only 29 acres.

Wildlife’s decision to allow commercial tours of the canyon, beginning last summer, is a cause of concern for some archaeologists. The tours are accompanied by retired wildlife officials, not archaeologists.

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