29 (D-102) Sad information about the Petrified Forest: Theft of petrified wood is a problem despite protection and despite the fact that nearby vendors sell wood collected legally from private land. Despite a guard force of seven National Park Service rangers, fences, warning signs, and the risk of getting a $325 fine, an estimated 12 tons of the fossil wood is stolen from the Petrified Forest every year.
Read more if you like: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/us/petrified-forest-shrinks-one-stolen-piece-at-a-time.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Read more if you like: http://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/28/us/petrified-forest-shrinks-one-stolen-piece-at-a-time.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
The article was written in 1999; perhaps there are no more thieves today?
It's in the northern section of the Petrified Forest where you can find the spectacular Painted Desert. The popular name for the desert comes from the Colonial Spanish, El Desierto Pintado. They gave it this name because of its brightly colored landscape. The desert stretches from the Grand Canyon National Park into the Petrified Forest National Park. It's a broad area of badlands in Arizona. Badlands????
Jane
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VOCABULARY:
theft = taking something which is not yours; taking something which does not belong to you
thief = a person who steals something; a person which takes something which does not belong to him/her. (plural: thieves)
despite = malgré; en dépit de
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