Arizona Parks Suffering At Hands Of Looters
28 November 2002 - 10:00am
Trying to keep visitors and entrepreneurs from stealing from Arizona's understaffed national parks is a losing battle.
"Piece by piece, Arizona's national parks are disappearing.Tourists and entrepreneurs have been smuggling pieces of petrifiedwood out of Petrified Forest National Park, east of Holbrook, sincebefore the park was established. Last year, the park lost an estimated12 tons."
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Parks dying at hands of looters
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The Arizona Republic, November 28, 2002
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