Message #9362

[jim-ratliff]

The Park Rangers would get upset at the "recovering" flora getting trampled by carving.
In the 50' and 60's there was substantial uranium mining done in Canyonlands. That and the previous generations that drove cattle thru the canyons, did? quite a job on the ecology there.

As Jim mentoned, what is not captured by the pictures are the colors. There is algae growing on the sides of hills which is a light turquoise, red stone in the canyons, often topped by a layer of white rock. It is early spring there and the brush was turning green and some small flowers starting to bloom.

A trip everyone should do at least once in their life. I am not religious, but did think when looking out, "what God has wroth."

Lynn (using Jim's computer)