Increase the required liability insurance for guides to $500,000 beginning September 1, 2000. (this will help keep those pesky guides out of the park)
J. Cultural Resource Mismanagement
1. PUBLIC USE-Restriction PLAN: The Public Use-Restriction Plan is based upon the knowledge that Hueco Tanks contains extensive, highly significant cultural resources and upon the premise that resource protection must always be the top priority in management of the site. (Well, the premise is false, and therefore all that supposedly follows from it is false also. The top priority in any endeavor Mankind undertakes must always be Freedom. What good are "resources" if only slaves can use them?)
2. ASSESSMENT: At the initiation of the public use-Restriction plan, TPW staff recognized that additional information was needed about the cultural resources within the park (to continue the slow, enexorable process of denying access to legitimate, responsible users). Accordingly, three types of studies were proposed:
1) a survey of the buried archeological deposits in the park;
2) a survey of the pictographs in the park; and
3) an ethnographic study documenting Native American (the correct term is descendants of aboriginies) viewpoints about the pictographs, landscape, and archeological remains.
Inventory surveys of the archeology and pictographs were initiated by TPW in 1999. The archeological study found that cultural deposits in the park span a period of 10,000 years. They are concentrated around the base of the mountains in proximity to natural water sources, some captured by artificial dams.
Features recorded in these areas include over 100 prehistoric hearths (campfires), 300 bedrock mortars (food-processing facilities), and broad areas of soils stained by intensive use. Over 160 areas sheltered by rocks contain pictographs and cultural deposits that preserve dietary evidence, fragile artifacts, and, in some cases, human remains. The pictograph assessment provided an initial inventory and digital documentation of the (238) known pictograph panels in the park. Additional (44) pictograph panels were discovered in the course of recording the known panels, and many more are likely to be contained in areas of the mountains that were not studied intensively. Furthermore, scanning and enhancement of the digital images revealed additional pictographs, suggesting that rock faces that appear to be undecorated have a high potential to contain images not visible to the naked eye. (This is the secret weapon of the Necrocultists. If all other attempts to restrict access fail, they will eventually use it to close access on rocky areas, not just dirt areas such as the base of Mushroom)
These projects indicate that the archeological deposits in the park are significant and remain relatively intact, holding a considerable potential to provide information on the entire period of human history at Hueco Tanks SHP and in the greater Southwest. ( Hah! Another bald-faced lie. The Necrocultists will never properly excavate and catalog the "significant archeological deposits", as evidenced by the unreasonable closure of Mushroom boulder in 2007. They won't excavate, because the desendants of the aboriginies (i.e the Tiguas), won't allow it. Mark our words - eventually ALL the "blue" sections on this map will be off-limits to climbing.) Furthermore, the initial pictograph inventory indicates that the mountains are covered with pictographs, and that years of study will be required to >
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