Posted: 12/27/2015
Trigger
We have recently visited the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Arizona for the first time. I had very mixed impressions of this site managed by the National Park Service!
This is not the first time that I thought that the National Park Service is doing a rather mediocre job managing various sites. Big Government agencies are often underperforming or should not be in business at all!
Notes
- The Casa Grande Ruins became the first prehistoric and cultural reserve in the U.S. by order of President Harrison in 1892. “It was then re-designated a national monument by President Woodrow Wilson on August 3, 1918.”
- For several decades now only the main building is covered by a large shelter roof to protect it from rain and sunshine, but the other buildings surrounding the main ruin of the same settlement are not protected by shelter roofs or anything. Thus, the other buildings are allowed to be washed away over time. This is simply unacceptable!
- There are dozens of pigeons living and nesting inside the Casa Grande Ruins. There are large areas thickly covered in bird poop throughout the main ruin. This is truly disgusting and probably detrimental to the ruins. When I asked the NPS staff at the entrance about this and why there is not a net over the ruins to prevent these pigeons from living there, they kind of shrugged their shoulders and hinted that there were also owls living under the sheltered roof. So to protect these owls, the NPS allows pigeons to ruin the ruins? How stupid and inept is that?
- It was also not clear to me or might be mistaken, but it appears there are no archeological work done at this site anymore. If true, why?
- Perhaps, had these ruins be left to the state of Arizona or the native peoples they would have been preserved much better
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