Posted inJune 24, 1996: Catron County's politics heat up as its land goes bankrupt

Canyonlands is a park in name only; in truth only highly organized chaos reigns

They put a park on it in 1964. Canyonlands National Park. People struggled to define its borders, to leave in Indian Creek, or to exclude Lavender Canyon, should the Orange Cliffs be inside or outside? A congressional hearing was held. Meanwhile rocks off the Orange Cliffs broke loose and moved from BLM land into proposed […]

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