I stopped at Providence Canyon State Park near Lumpkin GA on my way home from a school field day in Cuthbert GA on Friday. The park is located south of Columbus on the west-central edge of the state. It is now billed as one of Georgia’s seven natural wonders, with layers of pink and white soil carved as deep as 150 feet into the land. But Providence Canyon is really a man-made phenomenon, caused by massive erosion due to bad farming practices in the 1800s.
I was glad to see the beauty of the canyon in spite of its sad beginning, and also glad that we have learned a lot about good land management practices in the years since then. Just one small area of a state, but a strong witness to the power of humans to change the land around them.
