Survival is the name of the game. Keeping as many people alive as possible is what it's all about in the years immediately following the Exchange. In the long run, Fort Huachuca is going to become a backwater again because the water needed for labor-effective agriculture just isn't available. In the meantime, though, intensive gardening-style agriculture can keep a lot of folks alive until local agriculture can start producing a sufficient surplus to release labor from the land to rebuild the economy.
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"We're not innovating. We're selectively imitating." June Bernstein, Acting President of the University of Arizona in Tucson, November 15, 1998.
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