When you don’t have all that, as an environmental historian, what you are left with is the place itself.”
So I took the opportunity to really go deeply into this place that is insignificant by most traditional definitions and doesn’t have an archive or what we typically think of as watershed moments. “But so often, those big-picture understandings turn out to be wrong or incomplete. As environmental history’s grown more global and transnational, it’s gotten large-scale and increasingly self-referential, focused on broad brushstrokes and the ‘grand narrative,’” he says. “In the early days of my field, scholars were more focused on place. Ben recognized that the Park Service needed to know more about the historical roots of contemporary ecological and environmental issues.”īut after finishing the report, Andrews realized that his research offered a unique opportunity to write a book about a geographically discrete, historically insignificant and little-documented landscape, a reversal of the “grand sweep” approach of much contemporary environmental history.
“The west side of the park has always been Rocky Mountain’s red-headed stepchild. “This was a document that would give the resource-management folks up at RMNP context for understanding how the Colorado headwaters’ portion of the park got to be how it is,” Andrews says. December 30, 2012, courtesy of the National Park Service. Ann Schonlau captured this photograph of a coyote hunting within Rocky Mountain National Park.
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