Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona: A centennial history of the first prehistoric reserve 1892-1992
Clemensen AB. 1992. Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona: A centennial history of the first prehistoric reserve 1892-1992. Park Administrative Histories. NPS D-14. National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Denver
This report contains the history of the ruins and immediate area, and information about the natural resources of the area. Although this history of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Arizona, is concerned primarily with the human history of the ruins and immediate area, there is some natural resource information. Chapter VII discusses the plants and animals, noting that the area within the monument could be the only remaining 'typical' desert in a predominantly-agricultural region. Many changes have taken place over the years of human activity, particularly in the last century and a half, resulting in a loss of both flora and fauna. Grazing, irrigated agriculture with the use of pesticides, surrounding development, an unbalanced fauna (rodent overpopulation as the livestock-exclusion fence also kept out predators), the departure or destruction of bats, and other problems are described. The present superintendent of the monument hopes to protect the natural and cultural resources, as well as to restore missing elements of the native environment--a difficult task, given present external threats and pressures. (The 50 figures are cultural, and the 6 appendices, historical.) Included is an extensive bibliography.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Clemensen, A
- Date of Issue
- 1992-03
- Publisher
- National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
- Units
- CAGR , CHIR , HIST
- Keywords
- Animals, Casa Grande, Cultural Resource Management, Cultural Resources, ehistory, History, Human Impact, Natural Resource Management, Pesticides, Plants, Preservation, Sonoran Desert, Southwest