Valles Caldera

£34.49 £45.99

Valles Caldera

Name: Valles Caldera
Brand: Museum of New Mexico Press
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A New Vision for New Mexico's National Preserve

Written by William deBuys and Don Usner

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About 1.25 million years ago, a spectacular volcanic eruption created the 13-mile-wide circular depression now known as the Valles Caldera, located in northern New Mexico. This revised & expanded edition marks the twentieth anniversary of the Valles Caldera Preservation Act, a visionary piece of legislation that transferred to the public domain a privately owned ranch (signed in 2000 by President Bill Clinton). The preserve was assigned to a board of citizens appointed by the president to manage it as a self-sustaining preserve. The experiment in semi-private land management ended in 2014 as the Valles Caldera was legislatively reassigned to the National Park Service.

William deBuys is a writer and former director of Valles Caldera board (2001 until 2005).