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Title: Arizona national forest’s 1-ton boulder called 'Wizard Rock' goes missing
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URL Source: https://www.foxnews.com/us/arizona-boulder-wizard-rock-missing
Published: Oct 30, 2019
Author: Steven Sorace
Post Date: 2019-10-30 01:18:50 by WWG1WWA
Keywords: Wizard, rock, Arizona
Views: 1730
Comments: 5
Arizona 1-ton landmark vanishes from Prescott National Forest Described as “a beautiful black boulder with white quartz running through it,”, Arizona’s “Wizard Rock” has been stolen. The 1-ton boulder is belived to have been removed by someone using “heavy equipment”. The investigation is still open. A 1-ton boulder known as the “Wizard Rock” has mysteriously vanished from a national forest in Arizona. The popular landmark, described as “a beautiful black boulder with white quartz running through it,” went missing two weeks ago from Prescott National Forest, the U.S. Forest Service said Monday in a news release. It was believed someone used “heavy equipment” to remove the boulder. “It’s unfortunate when we lose a treasure such as the Wizard Rock,” said Sarah Clawson, district ranger for the Bradshaw Ranger District. “Our hope is that it will be returned to us, and these recent recurring events will become an educational opportunity.” "Wizard Rock" is often admired by the public for its beauty, officials said. Taking minerals from national forest land is illegal without a valid permit, officials said. But “Wizard Rock” is hardly the first gigantic rock to be taken from federal land. In 2009, an 80-pound heart-shaped rock was taken from Granite Mountain Wilderness, officials said. It was anonymously returned after a local paper ran a story on its disappearance. More recently, two boulders weighing between 750 to 2,000 pounds were removed in separate incidents. Officials have asked for the public’s help in finding information about the removal of the "Wizard Rock."
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#1. To: WWG1WWA (#0)
Drat. Everybody (except me) has an excavator. I'm pulling stones, about half that size, out of a drainage ditch at the back of my property. Chains and a come-along.
You must have Popeye biceps and forearms.
I'm old and getting frail now, Fred. But the stones have to come out. They are causing the spring snow melt to overflow out of the ditch and right through my barn and workshop. Those stones are part of an ancient New England rock wall (the biggest stones where used as the foundation). Every click of the come-along reminds me that some tough farmer moved hundreds of those rocks out of his field by hand (well maybe with the help of some some oxen!) Years ago, some farmer pulled a ditch in front of the rock wall, then the rock wall collapsed into the ditch. Brilliant. I could borrow my neighbor's huge tractor except the ditch is in a heavy tree line. I've moved about five so far...only one more to go!
Damn illegals will steal anything not nailed down. LOL
Si vis pacem, para bellum Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." (Will Rogers) "No one ever rescues an old dog. They lay in a cage until they die. PLEASE save one. None of us wants to die cold and alone... --Dennis Olson " People that say money can't buy you happiness, have never paid an adoption fee
I find this sad. I hope whoever took it will return it. It truly is a work of wonder. Imagine the excruciating forces that created this rock.
The 1-ton boulder is belived to have been removed by someone using “heavy equipment”.
#2. To: watchman (#1)
#3. To: Fred Mertz (#2)
Popeye biceps and forearms
#4. To: WWG1WWA (#0)
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