EXCERPT: So it’s not hard to understand how Jordan felt when he visited the trailhead on March 10 and discovered that a recent visitor had marked the trail with pink streamers tied to posts that had been driven into the sandstone, presumably to serve as a guide to the arch.
“I’m a nature guy,” Jordan said. “That’s not something I enjoy seeing.”
Worse yet, when he arrived at the arch, Jordan found, to his dismay, that someone had tied a rope swing over the arch itself, wearing a small groove into the relatively delicate sandstone.
“I think angry was my first feeling about it,” Jordan said. “I didn’t understand how people could be so ignorant to think that it was a good idea.”
Jordan removed the pink streamers but couldn’t reach what remained of the rope. He settled for expressing his irritation about the vandalism on various social media sites when he returned home, hoping to raise awareness of what had happened.
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EXCERPT: SALT LAKE CITY — Criminal charges were filed against an environmental activist and her husband after an alleged incident earlier this month in San Juan County involving cattle that were blocked from their water source.
The charges against Rosalie Jean Chilcoat and Mark Kevin Franklin came this week in 7th District Court after a San Juan County Sheriff’s Office investigation into incidents at Lime Ridge off state Route 163 between Bluff and Mexican Hat.
A press release by the sheriff’s office said a local cattleman found the gate to his corral closed on April 1, blocking his cattle’s ability to access water. Deputies found evidence at the scene that included footprints and surveillance from a camera.
Chilcoat has been affiliated with Great Old Broads for Wilderness since 2001 and is a founding board member of Friends of Cedar Mesa, another environmental organization
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EXCERPT: Construction in Grand County is on the rise, according to the most recent data from the Grand County Building Department. In his annual report to the Grand County Council, building inspector Jeff Whitney said his office has issued permits for $13 million in new construction projects so far this year, outpacing the first quarter of 2016 by 200 percent.
Part of that early boon, Whitney said, can be attributed to warmer weather in early 2017, which allowed a quick start to building projects.
Whitney said he expects construction overall this year will continue to increase as it has the past several years.
In 2016, Grand County and Moab city had $64.3 million in new construction, approximately $20 million more than 2015, which closed at $43.8 million.
“I don’t see any signs of slowing,” Whitney told The Times-Independent.
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