The San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff through the lens of time
(Book - Regular Print)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-302) and index.

"In this extended visual essay celebrating the San Francisco Peaks and Flagstaff, watch more than 150 years of history unfold in 125 historical drawings and photographs paired with their modern-day counterparts. Author John L. Vankat, an experienced plantecologist and teacher, reveals the telling historical and natural details that provide meaning and context and bring history alive. The photo sets document the effects of lumber mills, early settlement, tourism, and urban growth in and around a mountaintown at the apex of Arizona. The result is an invitation to time-travel, appealing to anyone interested in cultural and natural history, ecology, land use, and resource management. Here in this high-elevation forest near the southern edge of the ColoradoPlateau, human effort and energy have remade the natural environment, but the storied San Francisco Peaks remain a touchstone of beauty, changed yet timeless. Vankat gives us a chance to celebrate this special place as it was, and as it is today-and to judge for ourselves what its past and present might say about the future of the American West"--,Provided by publisher.