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On July 15, 1983, the chairman of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) ratified a programmatic memorandum of agreement among the Arizona and New Mexico State Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), the Bureau of Reclamation, and the ACHP. The subject of that agreement was the construction of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) and its impact upon historic properties. That agreement was negotiated in compliance with Section 2(b) of Executive Order 11593, "Protection and Enhancement...
Class II Cultural Resource Survey, Upper Gila Water Supply Study, Central Arizona Project, Volume 2 (1985)
The Upper Gila class II survey inventoried 45.9 km2 (17.7 mi2) of landscape in eight project areas and identified 157 site locations reflecting prehistoric and historic occupation. The objectives of this chapter are to summarize the frequencies of occurrence and physical variations among those sites to enable evaluation of the relative magnitude of potential impacts upon different project areas.
From Fire to Flood: Historic Human Destruction of Sonoran Desert Riverine Oases (1981)
This book has been written intentionally to attempt to correct the disnoetic behavior of scientists who previously analyzed historic erosion and related changes in the Sonoran Desert environment. For scientists, no less than historians, have been quite unduly disnoetic; that is, all too many have proved to be incapable of knowing what they see (Morgan 1966:31). The chapters which follow this introduction deal with such variables as those already briefly mentioned, plus a number of others. Each...
The Swilling Legacy (1978)
Each year thousands of people come to the Salt River Valley, some to visit and some to live. They see a thriving, growing community. But like many who have spent most, or all, of their lives there, they don't know much about the Valley's origins or how it developed. The men and women who built the Valley were like today's people. They were trying to improve their own condition. In doing that, they contributed to the well-being of one another. Jack Swilling was one of them. Swilling...