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Author : Steve Holmes,Michael Holmes,Steven Holmes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : OCLC:184908474
Author : Verna R. Johnston
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520925491
All lovers of the mountains will welcome Verna Johnston's new and completely updated edition of her classic, Sierra Nevada, originally published in 1970. A professional biologist, veteran ornithologist, and well-known wildlife photographer, Johnston is the perfect guide for a natural-history trip into the Sierra. Regardless of how one explores the magnificent 400-mile-long mountain range, on foot or by car, in an armchair or a classroom, this is the book to have. Beginning with the western foothills, Johnston evokes a vivid picture of the varied plant and animal life encountered as the elevation increases, tops the crest, and drops to the more precipitous, arid eastern Sierra slope. The reader is taken through chaparral and mountain meadows, pine and fir forests, granite expanses and snowy peaks. Johnston writes of the Native Americans' uses and stewardship of the land, the role of fire in forest ecology, the eras of sheep herders and loggers, the work of John Muir and other preservationists, and the battles to save Mono Lake and Lake Tahoe. Her lifetime of field experience and discovery offers intimate observations of rarely recorded events: the courtship of the Sierra Nevada salamander, a wolverine attacking two bears, a fight to the death between a skink and a scorpion. Many changes have occurred in the Sierra since the first edition of this book was published, including acid snow, tensions involving human and cougar habitats, and an ominous drop in amphibian populations. Johnston documents these events and updates the ecological research in the rich, evocative writing style that makes her book a naturalist's treasure. This is a guide to the Sierra Nevada for the next millennium.
Author : David Yetman
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 0826322344
David Yetman's first foray into Mexico occurred in 1961, where he developed a lifelong fascination of and appreciation for the countryside and the people who lived in it. In southern Sonora, the author explored the environs surrounding the town of Alamos, located in a tropical deciduous forest. Thirty years after that first journey, and after the author's continued explorations of Mexico, Yetman launched a mini-expedition of sorts back to Alamos, searching for the Guarijíos, a reclusive people in a reclusive land, thought to be extinct until 1930. Yetman takes the reader on an engaging journey into Guarijío territory, incorporating interviews and his own observations into the story he unveils about their history, their struggle for land during the latter decades of the twentieth century, and the ways in which they live. A strong undercurrent of natural history infuses the writing as the author skillfully weaves his own interest in ethnobotany into the shared interests of his hosts, developing a picture of their lifeways through their uses of plants that might otherwise go unnoticed and also through the natural environment in which they have survived for generations. The Guarijíos of the Sierra Madre is an enduring work that seeks to understand human relationships to land, to larger dominant societies, and to each other through the eyes of a people who have maintained their cultural identity in the face of immense change.
Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416534402
A narrative portrait of the Sierra Madre describes the author's numerous journeys into its ungoverned regions, where he consulted with a folk healer and witnessed local violence and lawlessness that eventually threatened his own survival. Original. 75,000 first printing.
Author : Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : America
ISBN : UIUC:30112049821363
Author : Leonard F. DeBano
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biodiversity
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017588521
Author : International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits
Publisher : NV Bureau of Mines & Geology
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Geology
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108026882772
Author : California
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:74616329
Author : California. Department of Public Health
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : California
ISBN : UOM:39015059454028
1892/1894-1894/1896 include also, The Transactions of the second and fourth annual sanitary conventions held at San José, April 16, 1894 and Los Angeles, April 20, 1896.
Author : B. Traven
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0809001608
Two hard-luck drifters and a grizzled prospector seek gold in the mountains in Mexico. They start off as friends, but after they discover the lode the greed and paranoia set in.
Author : United States. War Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : UIUC:30112111148752
Author : Etats-Unis. War department,États-Unis. Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10807819
Author : Gouverneur Kemble Warren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : America
ISBN : UCLA:L0063383152
Author : Albert W. Bally,Allison R. Palmer
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 633 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813754451
Summaries of the major features of the geology of North America and the adjacent oceanic regions are presented in 20 chapters. Topics covered include concise reviews of current thinking about Precambrian basement, Phanerozoic orogens, cratonic basins, passive-margin geology of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast regions, marine and terrestrial geology of the Caribbean region and economic geology.
