Chaco Culture National Historical Park (Geographic Keyword)
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This report describes development of the Chaco Project, a long-term program of archaeological and historical research centered on the cultural resources in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The text summarizes the goals and objectives of the program and how it came to be managed. The early years of the project are described, including information from interviews with some of the individuals who shaped the project. Also described are problems which later emerged as the program grew and changed. This...
General Management Plan, Development Concept Plan: Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico (1986)
This document contains a general management plan/development concept plan (GMP/DCP) for the recently enlarged Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The GMP/DCP revises and updates a GMP approved in 1979, and many of the concepts in the earlier plan have been carried forward. The current GMP provides a general strategy for managing lands within the expanded boundary. It includes an analysis of critical resource values and an overall management zoning concept. Land protection proposals are...