Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument General Management Plan (GMP) and Development Concept Plan, Portion of the Sonoran Desert, Pima County
Author: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument General Management Plan and Development Concept Plan Implementation
Author: Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994: Department of Agriculture ... Energy ... Health and Human Services ... Interior ... Smithsonian Institution
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1618
Book Description
Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Department of the Interior and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1726
Book Description
Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis
Author: Jared OrsiPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806193522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
In the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000 years—along with evidence of their expulsion, the erasure of their past, attempts to recover that history, and the role of the National Park Service (NPS) at every layer. The outlines of the lost landscapes of Quitobaquito—now further threatened by the looming border wall—reemerge in Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis as Jared Orsi tells the story of the land, its inhabitants ancient and recent, and the efforts of the NPS to “reclaim” Quitobaquito’s pristine natural form and to reverse the damage done to the O’odham community and culture, first by colonial incursions and then by proponents of “preservation.” Quitobaquito is ecologically and culturally rich, and this book summons both the natural and human history of this unique place to describe how people have made use of the land for some five hundred generations, subject to the shifting forces of subsistence and commerce, tradition and progress, cultural and biological preservation. Throughout, Orsi details the processes by which the NPS obliterated those cultural landscapes and then subsequently, as America began to reckon with its colonial legacy, worked with O’odham peoples to restore their rightful heritage. Tracing the building and erasing of past landscapes to make some of them more visible in the present, Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis reveals how colonial legacies became embedded in national parks—and points to the possibility that such legacies might be undone and those lost landscapes remade.
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Preserving the Desert
Author: Lary M. DilsaverPublisher:
ISBN: 9781938086465
Category : Desert conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
National parks are different from other federal lands in the United States. Beginning in 1872 with the establishment of Yellowstone, they were largely set aside to preserve for future generations the most spectacular and inspirational features of the country, seeking the best representative examples of major ecosystems such as Yosemite, geologic forms such as the Grand Canyon, archaeological sites such as Mesa Verde, and scenes of human events such as Gettysburg. But one type of habitat--the desert--fell short of that goal in American eyes until travel writers and the Automobile Age began to change that perception. As the Park Service began to explore the better-known Mojave and Colorado deserts of southern California during the 1920s for a possible desert park, many agency leaders still carried the same negative image of arid lands shared by many Americans--that they are hostile and largely useless. But one wealthy woman--Minerva Hamilton Hoyt, from Pasadena--came forward, believing in the value of the desert, and convinced President Franklin D. Roosevelt to establish a national monument that would protect the unique and iconic Joshua trees and other desert flora and fauna. Thus was Joshua Tree National Monument officially established in 1936, with the area later expanded in 1994 when it became Joshua Tree National Park. Since 1936, the National Park Service and a growing cadre of environmentalists and recreationalists have fought to block ongoing proposals from miners, ranchers, private landowners, and real estate developers who historically have refused to accept the idea that any desert is suitable for anything other than their consumptive activities. To their dismay, Joshua Tree National Park, even with its often-conflicting land uses, is more popular today than ever, serving more than one million visitors per year who find the desert to be a place worthy of respect and preservation. Distributed for George Thompson Publishing
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona
Author: United States. National Park ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (Ariz.).
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Our Air Force
Author: William MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description