[lbo-talk] blog post: The Moab Giants Dinosaur Park

michael yates mikedjyates at msn.com
Sat Jun 16 18:25:49 PDT 2012


Full at http://cheapmotelsandahotplate.org/2012/06/16/the-moab-giants-dinosaur-park/

"I have written about Moab, Utah many times. The natural beauty of the region around the town astounds the senses: two national parks (Arches and Canyonlands), innumerable canyons, the La Sal Mountains, petroglyphs, pictographs, and the Colorado River. A paradise for hikers, rock climbers, rafters, bicyclists, and rock art lovers.

Unfortunately, commercial interests, always on the lookout for new ways to exploit nature, have done their best to convert this region to a paradise for profits. From uranium mining to jeep safaris, money-making enterprises have wreaked havoc on the land, air, and water.

Two years ago, Polish paleontologist and entrepreneur Gerard Gierliński purchased more than forty acres of land nine miles north of Moab, at the junction of U.S. Highway 191 and State Highway 313 (the road that leads to the Island in the Sky section of Canyonlands National Park). He proposed to local officials something that struck us as particularly insane: a Moab Giants Dinosaur Park. Through a Polish organization called the Delta Association, many dinosaur theme parks have been built in Poland and Eastern Europe, and there are some in the United States as well. They are promoted on scientific grounds; the Moab venture was initially hyped as "an open air dinosaur tracks museum," "devoted to science and research." The reality is somewhat different." . . .



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