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As
I reflected on the survey, I was constantly intrigued,
not so much by the account of grizzly bears on
the surrounding mountain sides or even by the
description of the stately ponderosa pine forest,
with meadows formed between sparsely located large
trunks, but with the fact that the survey was
more than 100 years old. A survey of the same
region today would surely seem to describe a different
place. Since 1886, Babbitt Ranches has been the
seed by which many of the Babbitt family enterprises
grew. Hence, much of the business and family culture
was formed on the romance and prestige of raising
livestock on large tracts of the wild lands of
northern Arizona. Certainly
over the last 112 years, the owners of Babbitt Ranches
have become more intimately acquainted with the Cataract
Canyon and Coconino Plateau Regions. Upon reflection,
they cannot help but question their obligation
to, and
their relationship with, this rich and beautiful
ecological landscape. Excerpted
from the Foreward by William C. Cordasco.
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