At the Confluence of Change: A History of Tonto National Monument
Dallett NL. 2008. At the Confluence of Change: A History of Tonto National Monument. Tucson, AZ
Throughout its one hundred-year administrative history, Tonto has been profoundly affected by the national movements in reclamation, conservation, and preservation. It has been equally impacted by changing relationships among the federal bureaucracies that implement these movements. The Bureau of Reclamation, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service operate on different philosophies concerning conservation, access, and preservation. Each developed a cadre of professional staff. followed mutually exclusive management theories, and wrestled with each other as they defined their roles and authority to manage land. One hundred years of this history still influence their relationships, and current employees will be well served to be aware of it as they work on new cooperative ventures. This account reveals one hundred years of shifting voices and values: how federal agencies codified archeological ruins at the turn of the twentieth century, how mid-century excavations resulted in losses (even gauged by archeological standards of the time), how opportunities to collaborate were lost, and how voices of environmentalists and Native Americans began to join the dialogue and today exert immense influence on land management, preservation, and repatriation.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Dallett, Nancy
- Date of Issue
- 2008
- Units
- HIST , TONT
- Keywords
- Conservation, ehistory, Fences, Forest Service, History, Mission 66, National Park Service, Preservation, Reclamation, Science, Survey