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Volunteer stewards help monitor cultural sites at Zion National Park, archaeologists say
Summary
Archaeologists at Zion National Park described how volunteer site stewards help detect graffiti, erosion and other visitor-driven impacts amid more than 5 million annual visitors, urging ongoing monitoring and protective action.
Archaeologists at Zion National Park said volunteer site stewards play a key role spotting damage to cultural resources that can result from heavy visitation.
Joe Green, an archaeologist at Zion National Park, told a small field briefing that the park receives "over 5,000,000 visitors annually, give or take a few hundred thousand," and that staff regularly encounter graffiti and unintentional erosion…
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