March 7, 2005
Mountain Ecosystems, Mountain Cultures, and How to Protect them Followup Report
See the original post and web material at this previous entry:
This well-attended presentation and the ensuing panel discussion, was very interesting. The key speaker, Dr Hamilton, had a wide variety of first-person photographs taken from numerous travels to mountain regions of the world illustrating both cultures and "place".
The panel discussion swung round to a discussion of how global assaults upon mountain culture and habitat are also leaning heavily upon the San Francisco Peaks. The most important theme of the night was how our business and government processes minimize and discount any value not bought and sold, or which is deferred to the future. Thus, the number of skiiers that might visit the Snowbowl weighs heavily, while the number of native americans and others who hold the mountain dear for other reasons, count for little.
In the photograph are, from the left, Dr Gary Nabhan, Director of the NAU Center for Sustainable Environments moderating. At the table, Dr Larry Hamilton, Professor Emeritus in Natural Resources, Cornell, plus other hats; Klee Benally, Director of the independent film "The Snowbowl Effect, When Recreation and Cultures Collide"plus other hats; a panel member whose particulars I have temporarily mislaid; and Larry Stevens, Grand Canyon Wildlands Council.
Posted by The Naturalist at March 7, 2005 4:19 PM