Jurassic age dinosaur tracks stolen from Moab trail, BLM officials say

A 190-million-year-old dinosaur track was reported stolen from a trail in Moab Wednesday, officials said. The track was lifted out of Jurassic age Navajo sandstone in the Hell's Revenge area, according to the Bureau of Land Management. The missing track was noticed by a tour guide for Moab Cowboy Country Outdoor Adventures, who reported it to the BLM. Moab Cowboy Country Outdoor Adventures owner Kent Green was on a tour on the Hell's Revenge trail in the Sand Flats recreation area with a group from California when he noticed the dinosaur track was missing. "I was showing them the tracks and explaining a little bit about them and walked over to show them this beautiful, definite track that I always liked to show and I discovered it was gone," he said. "It was just gone — I couldn't believe my eyes when I'd seen that." The person responsible for the theft could face fines and a potential jail sentence of up to five years...more

Another example of a federal agency who can't manage the lands they have, yet keep asking for $$ to acquire more.  Wonder why the Republicans in the House keep appropriating $$ for land acquisition?