The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah, Canyon Country Wilderness

Description: The Redrock Chronicles: Saving Wild Utah. By T. H. Watkins. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Also contains maps. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2000. First Edition. 163 pages. Softcover. Measures 7 ¾” x 7”.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 and complexity for the first time.CONDITION: Book is in fine condition. Intact. Pages are clean & bright. No loose or musty pages. Covers are clean & solid. Not ex-library. From a smoke free home. PAYMENT: I accept payments through PayPal. Please be sure to preview my other books and ephemera listed for auction & sale. I gladly combine purchases into one shipment to save you money on postage.SHIPPING: Buyer pays $4.00 for USPS Media Mail delivery to any location in the U.S.A. USPS Priority Mail is available at a higher cost. I use delivery confirmation. Note: Worldwide delivery to all other countries outside the U.S.A. will cost $29.95 for USPS Priority Mail, except Canada which will cost $23.95. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Thank You.

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