Arizona Parks Suffering At Hands Of Looters

Trying to keep visitors and entrepreneurs from stealing from Arizona's understaffed national parks is a losing battle.

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November 28, 2002, 10:00 AM PST

"Piece by piece, Arizona's national parks are disappearing.Tourists and entrepreneurs have been smuggling pieces of petrifiedwood out of Petrified Forest National Park, east of Holbrook, sincebefore the park was established. Last year, the park lost an estimated12 tons."

Thanks to Laura Kranz

FULL STORY: Parks dying at hands of looters

Thursday, November 28, 2002 in The Arizona Republic

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