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Take Action
You can help preserve the places of our past! There are many different organizations and individuals working on specific projects to protect the Southwest's cultural heritage. Your voice and action can help these efforts.
Camp Naco, Arizona- Featured in a recent issue of the Center's Archaeology Southwest magazine (Fall 2006), efforts to preserve Camp Naco are a race against time. Built between 1919 and 1923 as part of the U.S. War Department's Mexican Border Defense construction project, it was the only one of nine Western camps constructed of adobe, and is the only camp site in Arizona that remains largely intact, despite a 2006 fire that claimed four buildings. The town of Huachuca City is leading the drive to rehabilitate and preserve this endangered facility. If you want to learn more about how you can help these efforts, contact Debby Swartzwelder [debby_j@cox.net] or Rebecca Orozco [orozcor@cochise.edu].
San Pedro River Valley Threatened by Interstate Bypass Plans- The Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) is conducting a preliminary assessment of the need and feasibility of a transportation corridor from the Buckeye area to eastern Arizona. One of the proposed routes would result in an interstate highway running directly through the Lower San Pedro River Valley, which is home to over 12,000 years of human history. For more information on this assessment, and to provide your comments to ADOT, visit http://tpd.azdot.gov/planning/i10bypass.php.
- More information about this threat is available from the Cascabel Working Group, a group composed of residents and land owners of the Middle San Pedro Valley (roughly from the Tres Alamos Wash Bridge to the San Manuel city limits) who have voluntarily joined together to oppose routing an interstate highway through the San Pedro Valley. Their website can be found at http://i10bypassinfo.us
Galisteo Basin Archeological Sites Protection Act- For more information on the Galisteo Basin Archaeological Sites Protection Act and on Galisteo Basin archaeology in general (as featured in the Center for Desert Archaeology's Archaeology Southwest 19:4), visit http://www.galisteoarchaeology.org.
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