Robert Gehrke: We can’t monitor every ancient artifact in Utah, but we can instill an ethic that values and protects the past
State has a new volunteer effort to prevent destruction like the Birthing Rock travesty.
(Zak Podmore | The Salt Lake Tribune) A petroglyph panel outside of Moab known as Birthing Rock was defaced by vandals on Monday night.
| May 2, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
Thousands of years before the first white settlers even set foot in the region, the West’s original inhabitants left their mark on the Birthing Rock.
Generation after generation etched dozens of images on all four sides of the iconic stone, spanning hundreds of years, withstanding time and the elements.