Metropolitan Phoenix is one of the country's fastest growing areas, contains the nation's fifth largest city, adds more than 100,000 residents each year, and rapidly consumes the surrounding desert. However, it is not losing all of its open space. One can stand anywhere in the Valley of the Sun and look toward the horizon in just about any direction the glories of nearly 100 years of preservation efforts are visible. All told, over 300 square miles of the most beautiful desert and mountain scenery are preserved or targeted for preservation in the Phoenix area. This book celebrates the beauty of these special places, and the foresight, determination, and efforts required to preserve this critical link to the great outdoors. Using more than a century's worth of historical photographs, it tells the stories of the acquisition and development of seven of the Phoenix area's most important parks and preserves.
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Authors Donna and George Hartz are longtime activists in historical and natural preservation organizations. Donna has degrees in history and geography, and is pursuing her Ph.D. in urban climatology at Arizona State University's School of Geographical Sciences. George is an amateur historian and serves on the boards of numerous local historical organizations.
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Papago Park has the longest and most complex history of the major parks or preserves within the Phoenix area. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
desert botanical garden, regional park, pleasure park Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Courtesy Arizona Historical Foundation, Squaw Peak, Arizona State University Libraries, Camelhack Mountain, Papago Park, Encanto Park, Camelback Mountain, Courtesy Scottsdale Public Library's Southwest Collection, Sonoran Preserve, South Mountain Park, Courtesy Hartz, Arizona Collection, Courtesy Estrella Mountain Regional Park, Phoenix Mountains, Courtesy City of Scottsdale Preservation Division, Warren Krause Photograph Collection, Courtesy Library Archives, Papago Buttes, Donna Hartz, Gusse Thomas Smith Photograph Collection, Echo Canyon, Courtesy Phoenix Zoo, Sonoran Conservancy, Area Enlarged, Courtesy Scottsdale Historical Society Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Papago Park has the longest and most complex history of the major parks or preserves within the Phoenix area. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
desert botanical garden, regional park, pleasure park Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Courtesy Arizona Historical Foundation, Squaw Peak, Arizona State University Libraries, Camelhack Mountain, Papago Park, Encanto Park, Camelback Mountain, Courtesy Scottsdale Public Library's Southwest Collection, Sonoran Preserve, South Mountain Park, Courtesy Hartz, Arizona Collection, Courtesy Estrella Mountain Regional Park, Phoenix Mountains, Courtesy City of Scottsdale Preservation Division, Warren Krause Photograph Collection, Courtesy Library Archives, Papago Buttes, Donna Hartz, Gusse Thomas Smith Photograph Collection, Echo Canyon, Courtesy Phoenix Zoo, Sonoran Conservancy, Area Enlarged, Courtesy Scottsdale Historical Society Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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