Word: hassayampa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Thousands of miles away from the ambitious presidential aides and nosy reporters of the nation's capital, he now spends his time as legal counsel for Hassayampa, a high-altitude residential development recently built around a signature golf course that is dotted with Ponderossa pines...
Where no written records exist, restorationists turn to the geological record. Pollen preserved in layers of mud, for example, enabled a University of Arizona scientist to determine that a thousand years ago, the Nature Conservancy's Hassayampa River Preserve near Phoenix was covered by a marshy grassland unique to the Southwest. But the presence of corn pollen indicated that 500 years ago, Native Americans had farmed the site. "So do we restore this area to the way it was before the Native Americans disturbed it?" wonders the Nature Conservancy's Richter. "If it's not natural now, then when...