Please don't take me wrong, Sinew, but.... I'll have paid the final mortgage payment I'll have to make (on the $6.7 Mil McMansion I want built to my specifications, and in the particular spot I've chosen, up on scenic 'Mastodon Bench' where not only will I be above (some) of the traffic noise, I'll have a sprawling overview of the Mini-Mall the developer is incorporating into his "Kane Creek Massacre & Goat Roping Nightly-Rental Estate Show") before I convince any of my national-level............

Then again.... Don't want run the risk of getting this post tucked up into the Attic for mis-characterizing a Mastodon as being a Bear.

Long story short, a 'developer' is in the process of developing (what several hundreds of Moab residents consider to be a boondoggle of a monstrosity of) a "housing [overnight & weekly rental condos, a gaggle of Tourist-Type Shops, and an assortment of McMansions available for those with a few million to spare] a "development" along the Colorado River. A year or so ago, while out photographing, by chance I met the 'developer' (he'd stopped to question why I'd parked along the county road that runs through the property he planned to develop), and in the conversation that ensued, I offered to assist and/or advise with regard to planning and preservation of the archaeological resources the setting has in abundance. As I might/should have expected at the time, despite calls and emails I subsequently made, I never heard back from the developer.

So yesterday I signed on to volunteer with the coalition who're aimed at limiting (or eliminating) the "development". I did so shortly after going in to 're-shoot' the petroglyph panel shown here.