BLM offers $500 reward for info on ancient art vandalism

The Bureau of Land Management has dangled out a $500 reward for information about vandalism this month at an ancient rock art site near St. George.

The vandalism in the Land Hill area was reported May 16, and is believed to have occurred between then and May 1, when volunteers checking the site last stopped by.
BLM spokesman David Boyd said a man who regularly hikes the area noticed the damage.

Perpetrators scratched names and obscene words throughout the site and littered the area with burned pallets and beer cans. …

Land Hill is part of the Santa Clara River Reserve, a 6,500-acre patch of public land jointly managed by the BLM and the cities of Santa Clara and Ivins. It has more than 100 documented archaic, Anasazi and Paiute habitation sites and 51 petroglyph panels estimated to be between 750 and 4,000 years old.