Category: Endangered Sites
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Crazy Mountain
Photo: Mark Cline Location: Montana, USA Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans (Crow tribe) Significance: Vision questing and religious area The Threat: Industrial development Preservation Status: According to the Native American Rights Fund of Boulder, Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service planned oil, gas and timber developments for Crazy Mountain, as of fall 1992.
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Cave Rock
Location: Located above the southeastern shore of Lake Tahoe in Douglas County, Nevada] Official Listing: The site is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places as a Traditional Cultural Property and as an archaeological property. Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans Significance: Cave Rock is the remaining core of a three million…
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Mount Hood
Photo courtesy of U.S. Forest Service Location: Oregon, USA Who Considers it Sacred? Native Americans (Columbia River tribes) Significance: Vision questing and religious site for the Columbia River tribes. The Threat: Commercial development Preservation Status: According to the Native American Rights Fund of Boulder, Colorado, the U.S. Forest Service planned a large timber sale…
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Hueco Tanks State Historic Park
Photo: Brian Stansberry Location: Located in western Texas, 32 miles northeast of El Paso Significance: Hueco Tanks State Historic Park, opened in May of 1970, is named for large natural basins or huecos that have trapped rain water in an arid landscape. It is considered sacred for providing sustenance in an outstanding rocky area. There…
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Petroglyph National Monument Site Updates
[Back] 1999 Update | 2004 Update | 2006 Update | 2007 Update 2007 Update Road Set to Openhttp://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jun/19/paseo-opening-brings-closure-debate-over-extended-/ 7/25/2006 Update NEW MEXICO- Road project presses through petroglyph park Source: KRQE News 13 ALBUQUERQUE — Drivers on Albuquerque’s West Side can see future relief from traffic congestion: the Paseo del Norte extension is halfway…
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Nan Madol
[Back to List of Endangered Sites] Photo: CT Snow Location: Pohnpei, U.S. Micronesia Official Listing: U.S. National Historic Landmark, nominated to the World Heritage list of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee Who Considers it Sacred? Pacific Islanders Photo: CT Snow Significance: Place where, according to Pohnpeian islanders, the “honored spirit of the land” is worshipped. Nan…