{"product_id":"mesa-verdes-secret-garden-by-christopher-barns","title":"Mesa Verde's Secret Garden by Christopher  Barns","description":"[University of New Mexico Press]\r\n\r\nMesa Verde National Park is the only congressionally designated land-based Wilderness to prohibit all recreational use. While backcountry use was encouraged for decades, stewardship changed over time as “gardening” the park for aesthetic purposes decreased while secrecy increased. The reasons for these changes, as Christopher Barns discovered, are multifaceted, but ultimately they reflect a desire to protect the park’s thousands of archaeological sites, including six hundred Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings, while allowing natural processes to continue. However, much of the park is without recognizable cultural features, and if the public is prohibited from experiencing the surrounding landscape, Barns asks, what is being protected and for whom?\r\n \r\n Mesa Verde’s Secret Garden is an authoritative history of Mesa Verde National Park’s management. The book utilizes unpublished primary sources from the park’s archives—including internal memos, public ","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"English \/ Paperback; 312 pages","offer_id":42337173602379,"sku":"9780826367662","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/7979\/3995\/files\/01c28961c2883232ba182e8da6c6a26801e005f1005f1454498f471a41058ba0.jpg?v=1776117822","url":"https:\/\/highdesertoutdoors.life\/products\/mesa-verdes-secret-garden-by-christopher-barns","provider":"High Desert Life Outdoors","version":"1.0","type":"link"}