Big Bend Administrative History

¹ Edward Abbey, One Life at a Time, Please (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1988), 127, 129, 135, 141.

² Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks, 165-66, 173.

³ Interview with Curtis Schaafsma, Laboratory of Anthropology, Santa Fe, NM, August 7, 1996.

⁴ Interview with Reece Sholley McNatt, Alamogordo, NM, December 18, 1996; interview with Francisco Grano, Marathon, TX, January 18, 1997.

⁵ Interview with Joe Rumburg, Green Vallez, AZ, May 31, 1996; interview with Bob Smith, Three Rivers, CA, September 7, 1996; interview with Henry "Hank" Schmidt, Sun Valley, AZ, December 10, 1996; interview with Roy and Louis Pitcock, Graham, TX, November 28, 1997.

⁶ Lemuel A. Garrison, The Making of a Ranger: Forty Years with the National Parks (Salt Lake City, UT: Howe Brothers, 1988), 231-32.

⁷ Ibid., 234, 250.

⁸ Interview with Russell Dickenson, Seattle, WA, January 28, 1997.

⁹ Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks, 183-84.

¹⁰ Interview with Chuck McCurdy, Santa Fe, NM, August 22, 1997; interview with Monte Fitch, Grand Junction, CO, August 27, 1997.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² Interview with Doug and Doris Evans, Big Bend National Park, TX, October 18, 1996.

¹³ Ibid.; interview with Garner Hanson, President, NPCI, Cave City, KY, September 19, 1997.

¹⁴ Interview with Jerry Rogers, Field Superintendent, Southwest Support Office, NPS, Santa Fe, August 22, 1997.

¹⁵ Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks, 211-12, 214-15.

¹⁶ Ibid., 233-34, 244.

¹⁷ Interview with Frank Deckert, Superintendent, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, Carlsbad, NM, September 20, 1996.

¹⁸ Interview with Vidal Davila, Chief, Sciences and Resource Management Division, BIBE, September 5, 1997.

¹⁹ Interview with Rick Lobello, Director, Carlsbad Caverns Nature Association, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, NM, August 18, 1999.

²⁰ Interview with Robert Haraden, Seeley Lake, MT, July 24, 1996.

²¹ Sellars, Preserving Nature in the National Parks, 263-64, 281.

²² Interview with Keith Yarborough, Department of Geography, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX, January 17, 1997.

²³ Interview with Tom Alex, Chief Archaeologist, Sciences and Resource Management Division, BIBE, October 18, 1996.

²⁶ Robert Haraden interview, July 24, 1996; interview with Jim Carrico, Study Butte, TX, January 16, 1997; telephone interview with Jim Liles, Buffalo National River Recreation Area, Harrison, AR, August 21, 1997.

²⁷ Interview with Val Beard, County Magistrate, Brewster County, Alpine, TX, August 26, 1998. For an analysis of the controversy surrounding the Davis Mountains study, see Michael Welsh, A Special Place, A Sacred Trust: Preserving the Fort Davis Story (Santa Fe: National Park Service, 1996), 243-252.

²⁸ Interview with Robert Arnberger, Superintendent, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ, June 3, 1996; Keith Yarborough interview, January 17, 1997.

²⁹ Interview with Jose Cisneros, Superintendent, BIBE, August 21, 1997, August 25, 1998; interview with Vidal Davila, August 25, 1998; interview with Jose Cisneros, Santa Fe, NM, May 6, 1999; interview with Tom Alex, October 18, 1996.

³⁰ Mariscal Mine Program, BIBE, August 20, 1997; Arthur R. Gomez, A Most Singular Country: A History of Occupation in the Big Bend (Provo, UT: Charles Redd Center, 1990), 127-29.