Category: Saved Sites

[Back to List of Saved Sites] Kakadu National Park was inscribed on the World Heritage List in three stages over eleven years (1981-1992). It is one of the few sites included on the List for both outstanding cultural and natural universal values: Natural As an outstanding example representing significant ongoing ecological and biological processes; As…

By Nancy & Leonard Becker [Back] One of the most exciting developments in sacred site preservation is unfolding on the island of Maui, Hawaii. Beneath the town of Lahaina’s baseball field and a neighboring parking lot lies one of Hawaii’s most significant archaeological discoveries. Moku`ula, a Native Hawaiian sacred site that has been buried for…

by Jack Sammons [Back] The Temple Mound by Deborah Vess The Friends of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, in Macon, Georgia, opposes the proposed Fall Line Freeway which would bisect sacred lands known as the Ocmulgee Old Fields and the “Reserve Tract.” In the oral tradition of the Muscogee people, these lands are their place of…

Marysville, California [Back] Introduction | March 2008 Update The Bok Kai Temple located in Marysville, California, is comfortably nestled in the curving embrace of the Yuba River near its confluence with the Feather River. It is the only Taoist temple in the United States with Bok Eye, the god of the north who controls water…

[Back] Introduction | March 2008 Update | 2010 Resolution Introduction Nine Mile Canyon (Price, Utah, USA) is an internationally known site containing sacred petroglyphs and other cultural resources including a connection with Buffalo Soldier history. The Canyon contains expansive petroglyph “galleries” of prehistoric examples from the Archaic, Fremont, Ute and Historic rock art traditions. The…