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“We are Particular to Preserve:” The Wetherills’ Passion to Protect the Southwest’s Past … By Harvey Leake

by stiles • December 1, 2019 • 4 Comments

An early Wetherill photograph of Cliff Palace

We are particular to preserve the buildings, but fear, unless the Gov’t sees proper to make a national park of the Cañons, including Mesa Verde, that the tourists will destroy them. B. K. Wetherill, 1890 Into the silent stone building…

Take it or Leave it: HOW EFFECTIVE WAS THE ‘ANTIQUITIES ACT’ WITHOUT ‘ARPA?’ Ask BLM’s Ranger Lynnell Schalk…by Jim Stiles

by stiles • October 3, 2017 • 4 Comments

This publication has maintained for over a year that all federal lands are protected by the Archaeological Resources Protection of Act of 1979 and that, in fact, ARPA was passed by Congress to address shortcomings and inadequacies in the 1906…