The Redrock chronicles : saving wild Utah
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The Redrock chronicles : saving wild Utah
（Center books on space, place, and time）
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000
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- pbk. : alk. paper
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ISBN 9780801862373
内容説明
As a collection of geological and climatic phenomena, the earth is a scarred, bent, cracked, and agitated wreck of a place. Nowhere is this more evident than in Utah's redrock canyon country, which is among the most spectacular terrain not only in America but in the world. These extraordinary lands lie at the heart of the Colorado Plateau--130,000 square miles of uplifted rock sitting like a huge island in an earthly continental sea, surrounded on all sides by the remnants of once-active volcanoes. Although the Colorado Plateau includes portions of Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, in no other part of any other state are its complexity and time-constructed beauty illuminated more brilliantly than in southern Utah. Tourists and outdoor enthusiasts by the millions visit and revisit the area because there is no place else on earth quite like it. In The Redrock Chronicles, T. H. Watkins, one of America's best-known and award-winning writers on the environment and history, focuses on southern Utah's unprotected lands in a loving testament to its warps and tangles of rock and sky. Combining history, geography, and photography, the author reports the full story of the region -- from its violent geologic beginnings to the coming (and going) of pre-Puebloan peoples whose drawings still adorn rocks and caves there, from the Mormon settlement of the 1840s and 1850s to the great uranium boom of the 1950s, from the beginning of tourism and parkland protection in the 1930s to today's controversial movement to preserve millions of acres of wild Utah land in the National Wilderness Preservation System. Indeed, the account of that revolutionary movement is told here in all its color andcomplexity for the first time.
Writing from his own personal experience and extensive research, an appreciative Watkins takes readers on a tour of the Grand Staircase of plateaus, moving from the utterly wild triangle of Kaiparowits Plateau, with its erosion-sculptured mesas, tablelands, benchlands, and canyons, to a more welcoming kind of verdant wilderness that sits northeast, across the rolling desert scrubland of Harris Wash, in the red-walled canyon of the Escalante River. The author has spent much time hiking and camping here among the isolated buttes and mesas, and he draws a vivid portrait of the area's highlights: Comb Ridge, a 90-mile wall of 600-foot cliffs; Waterpocket Fold, an even more spectacular monocline to the northeast of the Escalante River, stretching a hundred miles; the Henry Mountains; Hump of Bull Mountain; Cataract Canyon; and the San Rafael Swell, an enormous oval some 2,200 square miles which rises just north of Capitol Reef National Park.
But The Redrock Chronicles is not simply a celebration. Watkins concludes with a spirited call for the preservation of the unprotected wilderness that gives the land its character and color. He offers the legislative device of wilderness designation as the necessary means of saving this plateau country that is not marked by one or two or even three or four scenic marvels but by an enormous kaleidoscope of geological diversity whose impact on the senses can set the mind to reeling with every turn.
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pbk. : alk. paper ISBN 9780801862380
内容説明
Utah's redrock canyon has some of the most spectacular terrain in America and the world. The lands lie at the heart of the Colorado Plateau - 130,000 square miles of uplifted rock surrounded on all sides by the remnants of once-active volcanoes. In this volume, the author focuses on southern Utah's unprotected lands, combining history, geography and photography to report the full story of the region. The account covers the area's violent geologic beginnings, the coming (and going) of pre-Puebloan peoples whose drawings still adorn rocks and caves there, the Mormon settlement of the 1840s and 50s, the uranium boom of the 1950s, the beginning of tourism and parkland protection in the 1930s, and the controversial modern movement to preserve millions of acres of wild Utah land in the National Wilderness Preservation System. T.H. Watkins takes readers on a tour of the Grand Staircase of the plateaus, moving from the wild triangle of Kaiparowits Plateau, with its erosion-sculptured mesas, tablelands, benchlands and canyons, to a more welcoming kind of wilderness that sits northeast, across the rolling desert scrubland of Harris Wash, in the red-walled canyon of the Escalante River.
Not simply a celebration however, the book concludes with the author's call for the preservation of the unprotected wilderness that gives the land its character and colour. He offers the legislative device of wilderness designation as the necessary means of saving this plateau country that is not marked by one or two scenic marvels, but by a kaleidoscope of geological diversity.
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