Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Book Of Answers

Author : David Wentworth Lazaroff
Publisher : Treasure Chest Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Nature
ISBN : PSU:000033802701

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Book of Answers by David Wentworth Lazaroff Pdf

What exactly is a desert? How can I attract hummingbirds? Are cactus spines poisonous? Is a javelina a pig? This book provides detailed answers to 42 questions that the staff at the Desert Museum are most often asked. Supplemented with nearly 100 illustrations, this 200 page book is broken down into three sections: getting to know the desert, the desert as one's backyard and enjoying the desert. Seven useful appendixes cover a range of topics including hummingbird gardening, venomous bites and stings, climate and additional sources of information about desert life. A fun way to learn how wild and fascinating our deserts really are!

Author : Steven J. Phillips,Patricia Wentworth Comus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0520219805

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A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by Steven J. Phillips,Patricia Wentworth Comus Pdf

"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : David Wentworth Lazaroff
Publisher : Treasure Chest Books
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1886679002

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The Secret Lives of Hummingbirds by David Wentworth Lazaroff Pdf

This book covers many of the different kinds of hummingbirds found in North America, and their life-cycle.

Author : Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson, Ariz.)
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520220293

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A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson, Ariz.) Pdf

"This fine book offers one-stop shopping for authoritative answers to all your questions about a most wonderful place, the Sonoran Desert. Bees, birds, beetles, biodiversity, all right here in one place in accessible prose. Who can ask for more than that?"--John Alcock, author of "In a Desert Garden" "Definitive and delightful--a fabulous compendium of facts and experiences written by the most knowledgable scholars in the field. This encyclopedic guide will make desert rats out of those who aren't already."--Ann H. Zwinger, author of "Run, River, Run" "Once in a generation, a guide to understanding a major North American landscape comes along. This book is such a touchstone, sure to become a classic. The emphasis here is on biodiversity, mutualism, co-evolution, and, especially, ethno-relationships--the long history of connection between desert peoples and their homeland, on both sides of the border. This book gives desert dwellers everything they need to develop the crucial awareness, to say, 'This is a remarkable place, filled with astonishing creatures and processes. We must act now, with fierceness and tenderness, or it will be gone.'"--Stephen Trimble, author of "The Sagebrush Ocean"

Author : David Yetman,Alberto Búrquez,Kevin Hultine,Michael Sanderson
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816540044

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The Saguaro Cactus by David Yetman,Alberto Búrquez,Kevin Hultine,Michael Sanderson Pdf

The saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape—its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human—has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity. This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro’s role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings. The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant’s unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro’s: history of discovery, place in the cactus family, ecology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, and ethnobotany. The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus’s prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology.

Author : Peggy Pickering Larson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1886679223

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum a Scrapbook by Peggy Pickering Larson Pdf

This full color book celebrates the first 50 years of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

Author : Peggy Pickering Larson,William Ascarza
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-08
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439626535

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Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum by Peggy Pickering Larson,William Ascarza Pdf

Since 1952, Bill Carr and Arthur Pack, the founders of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, have inspired visitors to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert. When the museum opened it had only four employees. Today it has more than 100 paid employees, nearly 200 docents, and close to 300 volunteers. About 85 percent of the museum is outside, where visitors can enjoy native and the endangered animals exhibited in award-winning naturalistic habitat enclosures, an innovation in exhibitory developed by the museum. Most visitors spend between two and three hours touring the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, but as the museum continues to grow, it is becoming harder and harder to see it all in such a short amount of time. Visitors should plan to come early and stay late!

Author : Karen Krebbs
Publisher : Adventure Publications
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781591936640

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Desert Life by Karen Krebbs Pdf

The desert is more than just a barren wasteland -- it's an ecological system booming with life. Have you ever wondered which animals call the Southwest's deserts home? Have you asked yourself how they can possibly survive? This fantastic guide to desert life, written by Karen Krebbs, holds the answers. With stunning photography, as well as fascinating and surprising information, you'll find Desert Life of the Southwest hard to put down! Book Features: Spotlight on more than 100 species of desert animals and plants Special emphasis on how to spot them and how they survive in the desert Animal species that include everything from small insects to large mammals Engaging information about the Chihuahuan, Great Basin, Mojave, and Sonoran deserts "Wow" facts, diet, predators, lifespan, and more

Author : Thomas Alan Wiewandt
Publisher : co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co.
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780878427130

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HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT by Thomas Alan Wiewandt Pdf

HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT: And Our Future in the Drying Southwest is a greatly expanded, 120-page 2022/Third Edition, co-published by Wild Horizons and Mountain Press. Part 2 offers an up-to-date, well-researched, thought-provoking, non-technical synthesis of ideas for a future based on “desert thinking for desert living.” In the context of explosive population growth and climate change, consider outdated laws that govern land and water use in the Southwest, how water and energy are connected, pros and cons of desalination, crops suitable for arid lands, agri-solar studies, solar canals, rainwater harvesting, ASU’s exciting new project with “mechanical trees” that collect CO2 from the atmosphere, and more. This book is packed with useful information for students, teachers, and parents. As in his 2nd Edition (2010) of HIDDEN LIFE, Author-Photographer Thomas Wiewandt brightens every page of Part 1 with stunning color photographs of plants and animals that thrive in seemingly barren landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. This book has also served as an educational companion to his award-winning film DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, a popular film with no narration that has aired as a pledge drive program on national Public Television since 2015. TAGS: Hidden Life of the Desert; New Edition; 3rd Edition; 2022; book; non-fiction; illustrated book; educational; science; ecology; desert; Sonoran Desert; arid lands; American Southwest; life in; animals; plants; human impact; climate change; population growth; overpopulation; future; sustainable living; water; Colorado River; Lake Powell; Lake Mead; green technology; energy; renewable energy; fossil fuels; agriculture; crops; CAP; Central Arizona Project; desalination; solar canals; agri-solar; agrivoltaic; rainwater harvesting; copper mining; Mechanical Trees; biofuel; invasive species; buffelgrass; desert architecture; maps; photographs; teaching resources; glossary

Author : Dusti Bowling
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781454923466

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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling Pdf

“Aven is a perky, hilarious, and inspiring protagonist whose attitude and humor will linger even after the last page has turned.” —School Library Journal (Starred review) Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she’ll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also feels isolated because of his own disability, and they discover a room at Stagecoach Pass that holds bigger secrets than Aven ever could have imagined. It’s hard to solve a mystery, help a friend, and face your worst fears. But Aven’s about to discover she can do it all . . . even without arms. Autumn 2017 Kids’ Indie Next Pick Junior Library Guild Selection Library of Congress's 52 Great Reads List 2018

Author : Eric Magrane,Christopher Cokinos
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816531233

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The Sonoran Desert by Eric Magrane,Christopher Cokinos Pdf

Desert cottontail // Sylvilagus audubonii - Simmons B. Buntin

Author : Andrew Lenartz
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780826362902

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South Mountain Park and Preserve by Andrew Lenartz Pdf

A true southwestern treasure, this all-inclusive guide to South Mountain Park and Preserve encourages readers to discover the nature and adventure available in this massive outdoor playground.

Author : Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1886679495

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A Docent-In-your-Pocket by Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Press Pdf

Author : Katherine Lawrence
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0823939855

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Life in the Desert by Katherine Lawrence Pdf

Defines the desert and indicates how plants, animals, and humans learn to survive in this extreme environment.

Author : John Gattuso
Publisher : Langenscheidt Publishing Group
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1585731692

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Arizona and the Grand Canyon by John Gattuso Pdf

This book provides everything you'll ever need in a guide book. It is an inspiring background read, an invaluable on-the-spot companion and a superb souvenir of your visit. Evocative photography: Insight Guides are renowned for their great pictures, which vividly convey a sense of everyday life. Illuminating text: Expert writers bring to life Arizona's history, culture, parks, arts, food and, above all, its people. Incisive evaluations: From the overwhelming beauty of the Grand Canyon and Indian Country to the bustle of Phoenix and Tucson, it's all here. Detailed, cross-referenced maps: All sites are clearly highlighted and numbered in relation to the text. Full listings: All the travel details, hotels, restaurants and phone numbers you'll need.