[quote=Hobie]Can anyone else envision a giant hotel tower build on that rock overlooking the Temec Valley?[/quote]
LOL, based on Chmn Macarro’s speech, I don’t think the tribe has any plans to develop the site. If they do at all, it will likely be just part of the base (trailhead map board, visitor’s center, restrooms, parking lot, etc). I think they want to make trails (even possibly 4WD trails) on it in order to allow interested groups and individuals to look for clues and possibly locate/excavate archaeology of the tribe’s ancestral remains.
I think it’s wonderful they were able to wrestle it away from Granite and I have full confidence that it will be part of their “reservation” in the coming years. This will prevent ANY gov’t entity from ever trying to take it in the future in eminent domain proceedings.
“Deserving” Native American tribe = 1 Big Development = 0
