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In the morning I generally read news online, and for the most part, it is all very far away. However, one morning I came across an item concerning the dinosaur trackway at Red Fleet, Utah: Some Boy Scouts ripped up and threw the stone tracks into the adjacent reservoir.
I was at Red Fleet the previous year.
What makes the crime particularly sad is not only that the trackway is (or was) in a beautiful area open to all but also that something so unique which lasted for so many millions of years could be marred by a few young idiots.
Early in spring 2000, while driving south on 191 en route to Vernal, Sue and I turned off the road to go to the Red Fleet State Park. North of the park was a footpath to a dinosaur trackway, and whereas I've seen dinosaur tracks in various museums, I had never seen a trackway in the open air. After bumping down a gravel road, we arrived at a well-marked trailhead.
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