Research Paper on:
A Look at Chaco National Park

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the concerns around Chaco Canyon National Park and World Heritage Center are real. Bibliography lists 11 sources. BBchcoFR.doc CHACO NATIONAL PARK  Written by B. Bryan Babcock for the Paperstore, Inc., November 2000 Introduction This discussion centers around a student based assignment to present a  problem and/or a controversial subject to an educated audience. The issue and its history needs to be defined; the problem analyzed; debate presented how to resolve the problem; and  potential solution to the problem. Although this was developed as a student initiative, the concerns around Chaco Canyon National Park and World Heritage Center are real. Audience Definition Members  of the National Parks Conservation Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting national parks. Chaco Canyon National Park, and World Heritage Center,, has now been listed as an  endangered park, by the very group that has agreed to listen to our proposal. History of Region Sprawling over 34,000 acres of remote northwestern New Mexico, Chaco Culture National  Historic Park is home to the most significant array of the remains of the Anasazi Indian culture. Nearly 1,000 years ago, Chaco Canyon was a center of ancestral Puebloan  life. The Chacoans farmed the lowlands and built great masonry buildings connected by a network of roads. Pueblo Bonito, the centerpiece of the park, was once four stories  high Within the park boundaries are 1,200 structures, remains of the Anasazis grand system of homes and roads that were mysteriously abandoned sometime in the 13th century. Pueblo Bonito,  the centerpiece of the park, was once four stories high (http://www.llbean .com/parksearch/parks/html/10431gd.htm). Many of the Anasazis stone and mud buildings are buried under