NEWPORT, R.I. — Police are looking for two people who vandalized Newport's famous Cliff Walk with spray paint. Newport Police posted a message on Facebook saying that two women had used spray paint on the walk on Saturday afternoon. They posted photos of the two walking under the Cliff Walk, with one of them holding what appears to be a can of paint.
Police are asking anyone who can identify the suspects to get in touch. The 3 ½-mile walk is designated as a national recreation trail and is one of Rhode Island's most popular tourist attractions. It runs between the Atlantic Ocean and many of Newport's most spectacular mansions, and draws hundreds of thousands of visitors every year.
Dear Adventurer, Breaking: The Trump administration is recommending lifting the ban on toxic uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.
This ban would have protected the area for decades, but once again, Trump is putting billionaire Big Energy companies like the Koch Brothers first.
I wish I could say I was shocked. But we're past that. All we can do now is fight back with everything we have.
This is desperately urgent, Dave. We are working on the ground and in Congress to secure a permanent ban on dangerous uranium mining in this iconic area and we're not giving it up without a fight. And if it comes to it, WE WILL SEE THEM IN COURT. Please, make an emergency contribution right now. Donate to save the Grand Canyon region from toxic uranium mining with your emergency monthly gift NOW -- before this spectacular area is decimated by crushers and dotted with slurry pits. We have taken on Trump and his Big Energy backers before -- and we'll do it again. With your help, we'll mount an aggressive legal strategy, target key decision-makers and mobilize our 3 million supporters to save the Canyon and the Native Americans who have already suffered decades of environmental injustice. Please rush your gift now.
Thank you,
Michael Brune
Executive Director
Sierra Club P.S. -- If you've recently become a monthly donor, THANK YOU, we're still processing gifts.
We must not destroy our natural lands, these landmarks are far more than magnificent splendors of nature. They are part of our survival. Our natural fauna helps to generate and clean the very air we breath everyday. We must all participate in protecting our future and our children's future. Corporate greed will destroy our way of life as we know it if we allow it. Protecting our parks reduces pollution and allows us a healthier air to breathe, free of inhalers, antibiotics and chemicals trying to mask illness and make corporations richer due to our dependence on there creations. Cut the cord and get back to the basics! The cycle of life is desperately compromised every time man encroaches on natural habitat.
Today we gaze through the windows of the past into one of the best preserved cliff dwellings in North America. This 20 room high-rise apartment, nestled into a towering limestone cliff, tells a story of ingenuity, survival and ultimately, prosperity in an unforgiving desert landscape.
Montezuma Well (Yavapai: ʼHakthkyayva or Ahagaskiaywa), a detached unit of Montezuma Castle National Monument,[1] is a natural limestone sinkhole near the town of Rimrock, Arizona through which some 1,500,000 US gallons (5,700,000 L) of water emerge each day from an underground spring. It is located about 11 miles (18 km) northeast of Montezuma Castle.
The Well measures 386 feet (118 m) in diameter from rim to rim and contains a near-constant volume of spring water even in times of severe drought, amounting to approximately 15,000,000 US gallons (57,000,000 L). The water is highly carbonated and contains high levels of arsenic. At least five endemic species are found exclusively in Montezuma Well: a diatom, a springtail, a water scorpion, an amphipod, and a leech — the most endemic species in any spring in the southwestern United States.[2] It is also home to the Montezuma Well springsnail.
Montezuma Well's steady outflow has been used for irrigation since the 8th century. Part of a prehistoric canal is preserved near the park's picnic ground, and portions of the canal's original route are still in use today.
As with Montezuma Castle, the label "Montezuma" is a misnomer: the Aztec emperor Montezuma had no connection to the site or the early indigenous peoples that occupied the area.
