Among America’s most beautiful western places are Utah’s ancient red sandstone cliffs astride narrow winding canyons, ever cutting downward through Utah’s plateaus by rivers leading eventually, to the sea. 

I just remember back to being a kid, driving along in the back seat of a station wagon, us kids with Mom and Dad, going on up to Yosemite.  The thrill of being in a different place with all of the spectacular mountains and forest beauty, was fine.

Wallace Stegner, author and wilderness advocate, was quoted as saying that “the National Parks were the very best idea that America ever had.”  And I, Larry Iwerks, am in full agreement to that.

Fortunate are we to realize that we could tie art with nature and use such- to create awareness to others, not to despoil the original design of the Land.  For it is very difficult to restore a ruined place, so let us not first wreck it.