Research Catalog

Title

Dry borders : great natural reserves of the Sonoran desert / Richard Stephen Felger and Bill Broyles, editors.

Publication

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

• Felger, Richard Stephen.
• Broyles, Bill.

Description

xvi, 799 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 cm

Subjects

• Sonoran Desert
• Natural history > Sonoran Desert Region
• Marine animals > Mexico > California, Gulf of

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 681-748) and index.

Contents

Foreword : the desert inside us -- 1. Six grand reserves, one grand desert / Richard Stephen Felger, Bill Broyles, Michael F. Wilson, Gary Paul Nabhan and Dale S. Turner -- 2. Remote sensing of the arid borderland / Kevin C. Horstman -- 3. A geologic tour of the dry borders region / Peter L. Kresan -- 4. Airing out the desert basement : the physical geography of the Sonoran Desert National Monument / Kathryn Mauz -- 5. Confessions of a repeat photographer / Raymond M. Turner -- 6. Ice ages in the Sonoran Desert : pinyon pines and joshua trees in the dry borders region / Thomas R. Van Devender -- 7. Growing up at the big horn / Anita Bender McGee and Letty Bender Hofstra -- 8. A trip to Laguna Prieta / Julian D. Hayden -- 9. Afield with desert scientists / Tad Nichols -- 10. El Viento negro : a saga of the Sonora-Baja California railroad / Guillermo Munro Palacio -- 11. Sing the river / Anita Alvarez Williams -- 12. Campfires and field notes / Norman M. Simmons and Hilah Simmons -- 13. Godfrey Sykes and the Hilda / Diane Boyer -- 14. Native peoples of the dry borders region / Bill Broyles, Adrianne G. Rankin and Richard Stephen Felger -- 15. Living resources at the centre of the Sonoran Desert : regional uses of plants and animals by native Americans / Richard Stephen Felger -- 16. A botanist's view of the center of the universe / Richard Stephen Felger -- 17. Botanical diversity of Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Sonora / Richard Stephen Felger, Susan Rutman, Michael F. Wilson and Kathryn Mauz -- 18. Mammals of the Sonoran Desert borderland reserves / Robert S. Henry -- 19. Birds of Arizona's Southwestern borderland / David J. Griffin -- 20. Long-nosed bats and white-winged doves : travels and tribulations of two migrant pollinators / Carlos Martinez del Rio -- 21. Reptiles and amphibians of arid Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Sonora / Philip C. Rosen -- 22. Amphibians of Vekol Valley / Erik F. Enderson and Robert L. Bezy -- 23. From the ground up : biological soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert / Jayne Belnap -- 24. Wine of the river / Sandy Lanham -- 25. New life for the Colorado River Delta / Edward P. Glenn and Pamela L. Nagler -- 26. Marine fishes of the upper Gulf biosphere reserve, Northern Gulf of California / Philip A. Hastings and Lloyd T. Findley -- 27. Hovering over the Alto Golfo : the status and conservation of birds from the Rio Colorado to the Gran Desierto / Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta, Jaqueline Garcia-Hernandez, Yamilett Carrillo-Guerrero and Enrique Zamora-Hernandez -- 28. Aquatic mammals of the Northern Sea of Cortez and Colorado River Delta / Carlos J. Navarro-Serment -- 29. Invertebrate biodiversity in the Northern Gulf of California / Richard C. Brusca -- 30. Sea turtles of the Alto Golfo : a struggle for survival / Jeffrey A. Seminoff and Wallace J. Nichols -- 31. In search of El Burro, the tidal bore of the Rio Colorado Delta / Steve Nelson -- 32. Sonoran Desert National Park / Stewart L. Udall -- 33. Conservation and landscape transformation in Northwestern Mexico / Alberto Burquez and Angelina Martinez-Yrizar -- 34. Growing a conservation community : the CEDO story / Peggy J. Turk Boyer -- 35. Cooperation across borders : a brief history of Sonoran Desert conservation beyond boundaries / Wendy Laird Benner, Joaquin Murrieta-Saldivar and John Shepard -- 36. Vertebrates of the Rio Colorado : what can be done? / Eric Mellink -- 37. Last call : leaving something behind / Charles Bowden -- 38. Changing place-names in El Pinacate / Julian D. Hayden -- 39. Our grand desert : a gazetteer / Bill Broyles, Luke Evans, Richard Stephen Felger and Gary Paul Nabhan.

ISBN

• 0874808189 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0874808197 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780874808186
• 9780874808193

LCCN

2005028165

OCLC

• ocm62085339
• 62085339
• SCSB-5353743

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries