An Outdoor Guide to Bartram's Travels (review)

aspects and cultural influence) and to provide visual cues to entice the reader to find out more about southern Utah and, perhaps, even visit this area. Watkins does this in an informative, yet intriguing way. He leaves the reader with a sense of what has happened in southern Utah and that there is more to be done to save this precious landscape. The Redrock Chronicles provides an excellent look at a unique geographical area by providing descriptions of the physical and cultural geography of southern Utah. Watkins bridges these two aspects in the final portion of his book with his discussion of the environmental degradation that has taken place and, in his view, will continue to take place if Utah’s wilderness does not become protected by federal law.