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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry221916amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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140 AMERICAN FORESTRY lies the great desert striped with crimson, purple and tan broken here and there with great up-thrust rocks, towering monuments of the desert gods. On every side are canyons with ruins here and there and the traveler may wander for days from one to another, fascinated, thrilled and lost in endless conjecture. The Park is reached by the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, which delivers its passengers at Mancos in the southern part of Colorado whence a trip of 20 odd The top of the mesa is covered with stunted cedars and pines, and its elevation changes gradually from 8,200 feet at the northern boundary of the Park to 6,800 feet at the southern boundary. This elevation gives the cool, crisp climate that is one of the greatest charms of the Park. In addition to the cliff dwellings that are to be found in the caves along the canyon walls, the top of the mesa is dotted with remains of mound-builder dwellinsrs.
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CI.IFF DWELLI^'GS NEAR ROOSEVELT DAM, ARIZONA, OVER GLOBE-PHOENIX AUTO ROAD A tour of the Apache Trail takes the tourist past this unusual ruin, where the walls were surfaced with a plaster of adobe. Perhaps this was the first step toward the modern hard-wall finish for interiors, and it is doubtful whether our modern plastering would stand the same test of time, although the dry atmosphere of Arizona favors the antique. miles will take the tourist to the ruins. The town of Mancos lies in a small valley, from the rim of which this great smooth mesa slopes at a slight grade to the south- west, cut in the direction of its slope by a series of deep canyons which, by erosion, have been extended like fingers into the high plateau. These canyons vary in depth from 500 to 1,000 feet, their walls being in most places practically vertical. The formation of the coun- try is sandstone, and as a result there arc broken ledges which have formed great piles of talus, so that at the present time it is possible, by means of carefully picking one's way, to climb down one side and up the other of these canyons in many places. The ascent on to the mesa is made from Mancos, which is at an elevation of approximately 7,000 feet, by automobile along a road which climbs the face of steep bluffs to the edge of the cliffs on the northern boundary of the Park. From here, to the north, is a view of the great Alontezuma Valley, one of the most fertile of the many valleys in the State of Colorado. There are few places in this country where the observer is so impressed with the panorama that stretches before him. The one and only road that traverses the Park follows the edge of the northern cliffs to the Chapin Mesa, passing by an old dried well of this lost race to the lower portion of

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