He said the agency was particularly interested in using lighting equipment, like lasers, at the base of the park's 1,300-foot rock tower.

"This being a night skies park and a natural park and a sacred site to 24 different tribes, that would be considered sacrilegious and gets into that 'inappropriate use'," Robinson said. "And that meant maybe we would have to close portions of the main trail to facilitate this kind of stuff."

The agency also indicated that it wished to host as many as 50,000 people at the concert site, owned by rancher Odgen Driskill, about half a mile away from the monument.

"I don't know if that's logistically possible given the location of Devils Tower, but given that they won four — maybe five — Grammys, they might have been able to do it," he said. "I'm not sure."

Robinson said as discussions with the agency continued through the end of last year, it grew to understand the significance of the site to Native Americans and that the proposal was unlikely to be permitted.

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[Editor's note: This story has been changed to reflect a clarification. The proposed concert site is on private land adjacent to the monument and the lasers would have been placed at the base of the tower.]

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