(From the Dec/Jan Zephyr) THE “STABILIZATION” OF DELICATE ARCH: Once upon a time, the Park Service Decided to Glue the Iconic Arch…by Jim Stiles

Excerpt:

During my first winter at Arches, when the tourists were few and far between, I spent much of my day rummaging through file cabinets reading old monthly reports and looking at the black & white photo collection. One day, a labeled folder caught my eye. It read: Delicate Arch Stabilization Project. I remembered the remark in Desert Solitaire but still couldn’t quite believe my eyes.

What I found inside was a decade’s worth of memorandums, letters, and reports, all dedicated to the question – should the Park Service save Delicate Arch from imminent collapse?

To read more about the efforts to glue together Delicate Arch, click the image below:

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