Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde. Problem: impacts to historical/cultural resources; depreciative behavior Management Strategies: limit.

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Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde

Problem: impacts to historical/cultural resources; depreciative behavior Management Strategies: limit use; reducing the impact of use; hardening the resource Management Practices: rules and regulations; facility development/site design/maintenance; law enforcement; rationing/allocation; zoning; information/ education

Mesa Verde National Park Ancestral Puebloan people 550 to 1300 A.D. “Green table” 1906 (Teddy Roosevelt) Richard Wetherill and Charlie Mason First U.S. cultural park Over 4,000 archeological sites (600 cliff dwellings) Over 600,000 visitor per year Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde

Visitors may not enter cliff dwellings without the presence of a uniformed ranger Most of the park’s cultural resources are closed to the public Ticketed tours for Cliff Palace and Balcony House during peak season Heavy emphasis on interpretation Freeman Tilden: “through knowledge, understanding; through understanding, appreciation; through appreciation, protection.” Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde

Mesa Verde National Park

Virtual tour of Mesa Verde National Park (3:49)Virtual tour of Mesa Verde National Park Preservation of Archeological Sites Stewarding America’s Antiquities at Mesa Verde