Public disappointed
This new decision from the park officials annoyed a lot of people who just wanted to enjoy the landmark as they did before. But now that was clearly impossible. There was just too much security and fences around the place for anyone to enter without getting caught. They really weren’t taking any chances.
It made sense as well, the rocks were hundreds of millions of years old, so obviously you wouldn’t want more of them to get destroyed. The public wanted to know just as badly as the authorities about who was responsible for all of this. The hunt for the culprits was on.