A Brief History of Calaveras Big Trees State Park Calaveras became a State Park in 1931 to preserve the North Grove of giant sequoias. This grove includes the "Discovery Tree", also known as the "Big Stump", the first Sierra redwood noted by Augustus T. Dowd in 1852. This area has been a major tourist attraction ever since, and is considered the longest continuously operated tourist facility in California. http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=551 The tree was cut down before it became a state park.
So, unless there is a sign within eyeshot of something, it's fair game? There probably is a sign at the parking lot/trailhead. Actually here is a link to the PDF of the brochure. http://www.castlecountry.com/media/uploads/files/Goblin-Valley-State-Park-Brochure.pdf It states: Also, you cannot just go out and start cutting down trees in national forests. http://www.kpho.com/story/20596025/az-man-arrested-for-cutting-down-tree-in-national-forest These were fucking scout leaders. Of all people, they should know how to conduct themselves in the wilderness. What would you say if they chiseled down the rocks at arches, and then said 'I thought it would fall on someone'. To now claim that they did it for safety reasons is laughable. They did it cause they're asses.
Taking it a step further, but the same concept......... people die naturally, so it's okay to kill them intentionally. :MARIS61:
Vandalism? They moved a fucking rock. Big deal, there are rocks everywhere. Maybe if they moved a less important rock, it'd be nothing? Is it a protected area at all? They were douchebags about the whole thing, but they really didn't do anything legally wrong.
The park rangers should get to push a rock off a ledge, with the scout leaders tied up at the bottom. Nature will determine justice. Whether or not the rock lands on them and kills them, justice will be placed in nature's hands to sentence them to life or death.
I can understand beating up the guy out of anger and not wanting to beat your wife, but can you give a logical reason for why you would beat him up for your wife cheating on you? I could understand, again, if he was your friend or something, hut what if he didn't know you existed? Do you think it would be right to beat him up? Sent from my banana using Tapatalk 4
Wether this is legal or not is a matter of interpretation. But it not a cut and dry answer as even the state prosecution hasn't decided this issue: The Emery County Attorney's office is looking into possible criminal charges against the duo, although the state Attorney General's Office has decided not to intervene.
If the guy could push a huge rock over with one hand, it wasn't going to be there long anyway. bfd. Go Blazers
Goblin Toppler Files Personal Injury Lawsuit Prior to Incident (KUTV) One of the men infamously nicknamed the "goblin toppler," is forced to answer even more questions tonight. You might remember the uproar created Thursday when video surfaced of three men, Glenn Taylor, his son Dylan and Dave Hall, pushing over a goblin sandstone rock formation in Goblin Valley State Park last Friday. Taylor, the man who is seen actually shoving the rock to the ground, had filed a personal injury lawsuit against a woman and her father for injuries he says he suffered in a 2009 car crash. Taylor filed the lawsuit at the beginning of September saying that after that accident he injured his back and had to "endure great pain and suffering, disability, impairment, loss of joy of life." Taylor also says in the lawsuit that the accident was "debilitating." Alan Macdonald says he was surprised when he saw the lawsuit come across his desk. He says his daughter rear-ended several cars during that accident, Taylor, he says, was one of them. Macdonald says no one went to the hospital after the crash. He says after watching the video that has taken off across the Internet, he thinks Taylor doesn't look debilitated at all, "he's climbing over other rocks," says Macdonald, after watching the tape, "then he lines up, gets leverage and pushes that big old rock several times before he finally pushes it over," Macdonald continues, "then he turns and twists and high fives and yucks it up and flexes his muscles he just doesn't look like a terribly disabled person to me." Taylor's attorney Mark Stubbs says just because his client is beginning to recover from his injured back doesn't mean he hasn't suffered from pain in the past, and he says Taylor's medical bills in the wake of the accident could continue for years. He does admit however that the tape may not play well if the case was to go before a jury trial, but ads it is only one piece of a larger case. http://www.kutv.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_7578.shtml
