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Submitted by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 November 2006  Page Views: 7437

Rock ArtSite Name: Fort Pearce Wash Petroglyphs
Country: United States
NOTE: This site is 1.28 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: The Southwest Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Saint George, Utah
Latitude: 37.075000N  Longitude: 113.576W
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Fort Pearce Wash Petroglyphs submitted by Flickr : Petroglyphs near Fort Pearce Image copyright: yourmap (Marvin Sperlin), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Rock Art in Washington County, Utah. Pre-contact petroglyphs decorate the north wall of the Fort Pearce Wash immediately below the ruins of the 1860's fort.

Walking north from the confluence of this wash and the Virgin River hikers can see petroglyphs and later historic markings. There is no one large grouping, but the figures appear periodically up to five miles upstream.

The sites is south of the town of St. George. The road access to the site is substantially less direct and is described of the Bureau of Land Management website here.
Dinosaur tracks are also accessible in this area. (Water generally is running through the wash only immediately after rains and hikers should be vigilant when rain storms are forcast.)

Note: See the news story in the comment discussing federal representatives' plans to approve a reservoir that would flood these sites.
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Proposed Reservoir would wash out historic sites by bat400 on Wednesday, 01 November 2006
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Coldrum submitted this story:

A federal land bill that includes a southern Utah reservoir proposal threatens to submerge some sandstone walls covered with historical rock art.

The Washington County Growth and Conservation Act would transfer land rights around the Ft. Pearce wash from federal land agencies to the Washington County Conservancy District.

Sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah and U.S. Sen. Bill Bennett, R-Utah, is set to be heard by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Nov. 16.

If it passes through Congress, the conservancy district has plans to build a reservoir.
"We think there should be a reservoir there - more flood control than perhaps storage," district General Manager Ronald Thompson said. "Exactly where it will be, I don't know."

The reservoir would take water from the Lake Powell pipeline and reduce the flood risk in Apple Valley and Bloomington Hills.

But Chaitna Sinha, an attorney for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, said that would leave invaluable resources under water. The wash area's rock art includes graffiti from 19th-century pioneers, American Indian petroglyphs and fossilized plants.

"These panels like this, they're really sacred to us," said Glenn Rogers, chairman of the Shivwits Band of the Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah. "It's just like going into a temple when we view these things."



Salt Lake Tribune / AP
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