- Local call number
- nm59g000s004b001f0023
- Media type
- Text
- Creator
- Taylor, Walter
- Title
- Save the Peaks, 1974.
- Original creation date
- 1974
- Repository
- Northern Arizona University. Cline Library.
- Use
- Digital surrogates are the property of the repository. Reproduction requires permission.
- Collection name
- Taylor, Walter and Nancy Taylor
- Content Summary
- Collection of articles, fliers and advertisements concerning the Save the Peaks controversy over the Hart Prairie development and Snow Bowl expansion. Includes the program for the Save the Peaks benefit concert featuring Jackson Browne and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
- Biography/History
- The "Save the Peaks" fight was a decade-long struggle, originally pitting local citizens against Summit Properties and its parent corporation, the Post Company. The object of the controversy was a 350 acre parcel of land in the Hart Prairie area of the San Francisco Peaks. In the early 1970's, local Flagstaff citizens united to prevent the company's proposed development of the Hart Prairie acreage. During the course of the controversy, the citizens of Flagstaff and Summit Properties became allies against the United States Forest Service (USFS). Both groups felt the USFS, guardians of American public forest lands, extended the "Save the Peaks" controversy for many years by neither cooperating nor negotiating in good faith with either the citizens of Flagstaff or Summit Properties.
- Subjects
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Land use, Rural--Law and legislation--Arizona
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Ski resorts--Environmental aspects--Arizona
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Zoning--Arizona--Flagstaff
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Real estate development--Sociological aspects--Arizona
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Navajo Indians--Religion
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Hopi Indians--Religion
- Places
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Coconino National Forest (Ariz.)
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San Francisco Peaks (Ariz.)
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Hart Prairie (Ariz.)
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Coconino County (Ariz.)
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Flagstaff (Ariz.)
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Arizona Snow Bowl (Ariz.)
- People
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Taylor, Nancy
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Taylor, Walter
- Organizations
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United States. Forest Service
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Coconino County (Ariz.). Board of Supervisors
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Coconino Citizens Association (Flagstaff, Ariz.)
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Arizona. State Land Dept.
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