Late Northern San Rafael Fremont 800 A.D. to 1250 A.D. Nine Mile Canyon, Carbon County
An unusual figure with no arms faces a valley with skimpy patches of vegetation. Local ranchers say their fathers remember knee deep grasses and year-around streams. Now the creeks are lost in eroding arroyos.
Nearby the Barrett Corporation scraped an acre of land to set up a drill pad for a natural gas well. The company made no efforts to revegetate the land. Further, when Barett Corporation dug a trench for a new pipeline in the area, the on-site archaeologist noted artifacts. When the archeologist requested that the digging stop, he was fired. News of the incident leaked and the archeologist was reinstated.