More on the Great Unconformity
My husband has emailed at least 50 individuals about our visit to the Great Unconformity Interpretive Site a couple of days ago. He sent them this link as well.
He has received many responses from people whose interests range from actually having initiated and carried through with work on the site to Boy Scout leaders who have organized and taken part in countless cleanups. In the words of George Knapp of Channel 8 News "We’ve been reporting on the vandalism at the Great Unconformity for the past two years. You can still see the story scripts on our website. Our stories inspired a couple of cleanup efforts but the vandals keep returning. No agency has the budget for 24 hour surveillance of the area, unfortunately".
Most have responded with genuine thanks and encouragement to contact additional resources--they gave him information on more people and organizations to contact, and also passed his email along to others. In all, we've seen that many folks want to clean up and then continue to help keep the place nice.
As we understand it so far, unless the area can be secured, it's just going to continue to be a problem (We were afraid to leave the car there that day!). We were told that the Metropolitan Police Department does not have jurisdiction there. Does this mean that it would take a Federal Marshal to be able to arrest vandals?
The vandalism really makes me wonder about the bad in some people, but the good in most others is very heartening. It's a good feeling to know that so many want to take care of this amazing area...it was so heartbreaking a couple of days ago.
He has received many responses from people whose interests range from actually having initiated and carried through with work on the site to Boy Scout leaders who have organized and taken part in countless cleanups. In the words of George Knapp of Channel 8 News "We’ve been reporting on the vandalism at the Great Unconformity for the past two years. You can still see the story scripts on our website. Our stories inspired a couple of cleanup efforts but the vandals keep returning. No agency has the budget for 24 hour surveillance of the area, unfortunately".
Most have responded with genuine thanks and encouragement to contact additional resources--they gave him information on more people and organizations to contact, and also passed his email along to others. In all, we've seen that many folks want to clean up and then continue to help keep the place nice.
As we understand it so far, unless the area can be secured, it's just going to continue to be a problem (We were afraid to leave the car there that day!). We were told that the Metropolitan Police Department does not have jurisdiction there. Does this mean that it would take a Federal Marshal to be able to arrest vandals?
The vandalism really makes me wonder about the bad in some people, but the good in most others is very heartening. It's a good feeling to know that so many want to take care of this amazing area...it was so heartbreaking a couple of days ago.
posted by VegasKat at 9:27 PM
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