Inscription by Julien 91 64. Buttes of the Cross 92 65. Anderson Bottom Rincon 94 66. Drainage changes at Anderson Bottom Rincon 94 67. Stillwater Canyon 95 68. The Portal 97 69. The _Canyon King_ 98 70. Potash mine of Texas Gulf, Inc 99 71. Evaporation ponds 99 72. Petrified log 102 73. Relatively recent rincons along Indian Creek 103 74. The Loop 104 75. Reverse fault 105 76. Cutaway view of reverse fault 105 77. Salt Creek Canyon 107 78. The Slide 107 79. Gypsum plug 109 80. Geologic time spiral 110 81. Late Cretaceous sea 114 A New Park is Born On September 12, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed an act of Congress establishing Canyonlands as our thirty-second national park, the first addition to the park system since 1956. The birth of Canyonlands National Park was not without labor pains. In the 1930’s virtually all the vast canyon country between Moab, Utah, and Grand Canyon, Ariz., was studied for a projected Escalante National Park. But Escalante failed to get off the ground, even when a second attempt was made in the 1950’s. Not until another proposal had been made and legislative compromises had been worked out did the park materialize, this time under a new name—Canyonlands. Among the many dignitaries who witnessed the signature on September 12 was one of the men most responsible for the park’s creation, park superintendent Bates E. Wilson, who did the pioneer spade work in the field.