Land use history of the San Rafael Valley, Arizona (1540-1960)

Diana Hadley; Thomas E. Sheridan

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Land use history of the San Rafael Valley, Arizona (1540-1960)

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Diana Hadley, Thomas E. Sheridan

Year:

1995

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-269. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 279 p.

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Abstract

Interest in the new philosophy of ecosystem management led the Forest Service to sponsor a study of past land use in The Lone Mountain/San Rafael Valley Ecosystem Project Area, part of the Sierra Vista Ranger District of Coronado National Forest in southern Arizona. To better understand the cumulative impacts on the study area, the agency requested an historical chronology of human occupation of the area, with a focus on natural resource use and an analysis of the impacts of historic land use. This document describes that use over the period from Euroamerican contact to the 20th century.

Keywords

Arizona, environmental history, Spanish-Mexican settlement, Anglo-American settlement, grazing, mining, wood cutting, homesteading

Citation

Hadley, Diana; Sheridan, Thomas E. 1995. Land use history of the San Rafael Valley, Arizona (1540-1960). Gen. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-269. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 279 p.