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Visitors to a popular rock site at Lake Mead National Park are being tracked by federal authorities after seriously damaging a formation at the Nevada hiking site.
Officials say the damage occurred last weekend on the north side of the lake, where petrified red dunes make it one of the most well-trafficked areas of the park.
A video taken by a witness to the event, shows two men working hard to shove large chunks of loose rock of the edge of an outcropping.
The video was sent to the National Park Service.
A little girl, the daughter of one of the men, stands behind them, horrified, and screaming intermittently as the rocks fall.
Authorities are on the hunt for a pair of men who toppled several ancient rocks in a Nevada national park
'Daddy, don't fall,' she yelps as the two men work to push bolder parts over the edge and watch them break as they smash down the side of the cliff.
Officials have called the behavior extremely damaging, noting that the ancient stones cannot be fixed.
John Haynes, a public information officer for the park,
