The Deserts Of The Southwest

Author : William L. Halvorson,Cecil R. Schwalbe,Charles van Riper
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780816552412

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Southwestern Desert Resources by William L. Halvorson,Cecil R. Schwalbe,Charles van Riper Pdf

The southwestern deserts stretch from southeastern California to west Texas and then south to central Mexico. The landscape of this region is known as basin and range topography featuring to “sky islands” of forest rising from the desert lowlands which creates a uniquely diverse ecology. The region is further complicated by an international border, where governments have caused difficulties for many animal populations. This book puts a spotlight on individual research projects which are specific examples of work being done in the area and when they are all brought together, to shed a general light of understanding the biological and cultural resources of this vast region so that those same resources can be managed as effectively and efficiently as possible. The intent is to show that collaborative efforts among federal, state agency, university, and private sector researchers working with land managers, provides better science and better management than when scientists and land managers work independently.

Author : Nora Burba Trulsson
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0553052004

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The Desert Southwest by Nora Burba Trulsson Pdf

A study of the interior and the exterior of the Southwestern architecture with over 250 colored photographs.

Author : Madeleine Dunphy
Publisher : Web of Life Children's Book
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780988330283

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Here Is the Southwestern Desert by Madeleine Dunphy Pdf

Despite its stark landscape and harsh climate, the Sonoran Desert teems with life. Hare, hawks, lizards, bobcats, badgers, coyote — all live among the desert’s fragrant mesquite and spiny cactus, and none can exist without the others. Madeleine Dunphy’s poetic text explores all the warm and native elements that make the American Southwest such a mystical place, while Anne Coe's stunning paintings portray the desert’s plants and animals as well as the dazzling colors reflected in the rocks and skies of the Sonoran Desert.

Author : Cynthia Light Brown
Publisher : Nomad Press (VT)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Earth sciences
ISBN : 1936313413

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Geology of the Desert Southwest by Cynthia Light Brown Pdf

Venturing through two of the most diverse and fascinating regions of North America, these activity books combine the subjects of geology and physical geography while making them captivating and fun. With a different approach, this series reveals the underlying processes for kids, explaining each region’s evolution and illustrating the different forces of nature that have changed the continent over time. The lush forests of the Pacific Northwest, the dry and arid deserts of the Southwest, and even the volcanoes and rainforests of Hawaii are all explored in detail as the chapters chronicle the effects of plate tectonics; landforms such as mountains, plateaus, and canyons; and the elements of climates and ecosystems. A plethora of hands-on projects ensure the learning process is both engaging and entertaining, including making a swamp cooler, creating a rift zone, building a seismograph, constructing basalt columns and water wheels to harness the power of a river, fashioning moving tectonic plates, and even mimicking nature’s process of carving an arch.

Author : Carolyn J. Niethammer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 0816529191

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Cooking the Wild Southwest by Carolyn J. Niethammer Pdf

Over the last few decades, interest in eating locally has grown quickly. From just-picked apples in Washington to fresh peaches in Georgia, local food movements and farmer’s markets have proliferated all over the country. Desert dwellers in the Southwest are taking a new look at prickly pear, mesquite, and other native plants. Many people’s idea of cooking with southwestern plants begins and ends with prickly pear jelly. With this update to the classic Tumbleweed Gourmet, master cook Carolyn Niethammer opens a window on the incredible bounty of the southwestern deserts and offers recipes to help you bring these plants to your table. Included here are sections featuring each of twenty-three different desert plants. The chapters include basic information, harvesting techniques, and general characteristics. But the real treat comes in the form of some 150 recipes collected or developed by the author herself. Ranging from every-day to gourmet, from simple to complex, these recipes offer something for cooks of all skill levels. Some of the recipes also include stories about their origin and readers are encouraged to tinker with the ingredients and enjoy desert foods as part of their regular diet. Featuring Paul Mirocha’s finely drawn illustrations of the various southwestern plants discussed, this volume will serve as an indispensible guide from harvest to table. Whether you’re looking for more ways to prepare local foods, ideas for sustainable harvesting, or just want to expand your palette to take in some out-of-the-ordinary flavors, Cooking the Wild Southwest is sure to delight.

Author : Janice Emily Bowers
Publisher : Western National Parks Association
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1877856347

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Shrubs and Trees of the Southwest Deserts by Janice Emily Bowers Pdf

A guide to the shrubs and trees of this region. Arranged by blossom color with informative drawings.

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0816510148

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Gathering the Desert by Gary Paul Nabhan Pdf

Looks at the history and uses of plants of the Sonoran Desert, including creosote, palm trees, mesquite, organpipe cactus, amaranth, chiles, and Devil's claw

Author : Ken Layne
Publisher : MCD
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780374722388

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Desert Oracle by Ken Layne Pdf

The cult-y pocket-size field guide to the strange and intriguing secrets of the Mojave—its myths and legends, outcasts and oddballs, flora, fauna, and UFOs—becomes the definitive, oracular book of the desert For the past five years, Desert Oracle has existed as a quasi-mythical, quarterly periodical available to the very determined only by subscription or at the odd desert-town gas station or the occasional hipster boutique, its canary-yellow-covered, forty-four-page issues handed from one curious desert zealot to the next, word spreading faster than the printers could keep up with. It became a radio show, a podcast, a live performance. Now, for the first time—and including both classic and new, never-before-seen revelations—Desert Oracle has been bound between two hard covers and is available to you. Straight out of Joshua Tree, California, Desert Oracle is “The Voice of the Desert”: a field guide to the strange tales, singing sand dunes, sagebrush trails, artists and aliens, authors and oddballs, ghost towns and modern legends, musicians and mystics, scorpions and saguaros, out there in the sand. Desert Oracle is your companion at a roadside diner, around a campfire, in your tent or cabin (or high-rise apartment or suburban living room) as the wind and the coyotes howl outside at night. From journal entries of long-deceased adventurers to stray railroad ad copy, and musings on everything from desert flora, rumored cryptid sightings, and other paranormal phenomena, Ken Layne's Desert Oracle collects the weird and the wonderful of the American Southwest into a single, essential volume.

Author : James W. Cornett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Animals
ISBN : UCSC:32106007780585

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Wildlife of the North American Deserts by James W. Cornett Pdf

Author : Meg Quinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1933855371

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Cacti of the Desert Southwest by Meg Quinn Pdf

Deserts of the American Southwest are home to an incredible diversity of drought-tolerant plants, including many found nowhere else on earth. And no other group says desert quite like cacti. Their prickly nature notwithstanding, cacti are very fragile, as are the arid deserts they inhabit. In Cacti of the Desert Southwest, botanist and educator Meg Quinn describes eighty significant cacti of the Sonoran, Mojave, and Chihuahuan deserts, including several which are listed as threatened or endangered. Most are shown in full flower.

Author : Alex Shoumatoff,Alfred A. Knopf Publishers
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1999-08-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0060977698

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Legends of the American Desert by Alex Shoumatoff,Alfred A. Knopf Publishers Pdf

In this superbly rich epic of fact and reflection, Alex Shoumatoff records his quest to capture the vast multiplicity of the American Southwest. From the Biosphere to the Mormons, from the deadly world of narcotraffickers to the secret lives of the covertly Jewish conversos, Shoumatoff explores the many alternative states of being that have staked their claim in the Southwest. Full of profound sympathy and unique insights, Legends of the American Desert takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey into the most complex and myth-laden region of the American landscape and imagination.

Author : Arthur J. Burdick
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : EAN:8596547049357

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The Mystic Mid-Region: The Deserts of the Southwest by Arthur J. Burdick Pdf

"The Mystic Mid-Region" by Arthur J. Burdick is a travelogue about Southwest Deserts including the Great Mojave Desert (Death Valley), the Colorado Desert near Coachella, the Black Rock Desert (Nevada), Salt Lake in Utah, and many more. Excerpt: "Between the lofty ranges of mountains which mark the western boundary of the great Mississippi Valley and the chain of peaks known as the Coast Range, whose western sunny slopes look out over the waters of the placid Pacific, lies a vast stretch of country once known as the "Great American Desert." A few years ago, before the railroad had pierced the fastness of the great West, explorers told of a vast waste of country devoid of water and useful vegetation, the depository of fields of alkali, beds of niter, mountains of borax, and plains of poison-impregnated sands. The bitter sage, the thorny cacti, and the gnarled mesquite were the tantalizing species of herbs said to abound in the region, and the centipede, the rattlesnake, tarantula, and Gila monster represented the life of this desolate territory."

Author : Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816540280

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The Nature of Desert Nature by Gary Paul Nabhan Pdf

In this refreshing collection, one of our best writers on desert places, Gary Paul Nabhan, challenges traditional notions of the desert. Beautiful, reflective, and at times humorous, Nabhan’s extended essay also called “The Nature of Desert Nature” reveals the complexity of what a desert is and can be. He passionately writes about what it is like to visit a desert and what living in a desert looks like when viewed through a new frame, turning age-old notions of the desert on their heads. Nabhan invites a prism of voices—friends, colleagues, and advisors from his more than four decades of study of deserts—to bring their own perspectives. Scientists, artists, desert contemplatives, poets, and writers bring the desert into view and investigate why these places compel us to walk through their sands and beneath their cacti and acacia. We observe the spines and spears, stings and songs of the desert anew. Unexpected. Surprising. Enchanting. Like the desert itself, each essay offers renewed vocabulary and thoughtful perceptions. The desert inspires wonder. Attending to history, culture, science, and spirit, The Nature of Desert Nature celebrates the bounty and the significance of desert places. Contributors Thomas M. Antonio Homero Aridjis James Aronson Tessa Bielecki Alberto Búrquez Montijo Francisco Cantú Douglas Christie Paul Dayton Alison Hawthorne Deming Father David Denny Exequiel Ezcurra Thomas Lowe Fleischner Jack Loeffler Ellen McMahon Rubén Martínez Curt Meine Alberto Mellado Moreno Paul Mirocha Gary Paul Nabhan Ray Perotti Larry Stevens Stephen Trimble Octaviana V. Trujillo Benjamin T. Wilder Andy Wilkinson Ofelia Zepeda

Author : Eric Magrane,Christopher Cokinos
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Lawrence R. Walker,Frederick H. Landau
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816532629

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A Natural History of the Mojave Desert by Lawrence R. Walker,Frederick H. Landau Pdf

Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.