Includes bibliographical references (p. 681-748) and index.
Contents:
Six grand reserves, one grand desert / Richard Stephen Felger ... [et al.] -- Remote sensing of the arid borderland / Kevin C. Horstman -- A geologic tour of the dry borders region / Peter L. Kresan -- Airing out the desert basement : the physical geography of the Sonoran Desert National Monument / Kathryn Mauz -- Confessions of a repeat photographer / Raymond M. Turner -- Ice ages in the Sonoran Desert : pinyon pines and Joshua trees in the dry borders region / Thomas R. Van Devender -- Growing up at the Big Horn / Anita Bender McGee and Letty Bender Hofstra -- A trip to Laguna Prieta / Julian D. Hayden -- Afield with desert scientists / Tad Nichols -- El viento negro : a saga of the Sonora-Baja California Railroad / Guillermo Munro Palacio -- People and the river / Anita Alvarez Williams -- Campfires and field notes / Norman M. Simmons and Hilah Simmons -- Godfrey Sykes and the Hilda / Diane Boyer -- Native peoples of the dry borders / Bill Broyles, Adrianne G. Rankin and Richard Stephen Felger -- Living resources at the Center of the Sonoran Desert : regional uses of plants and animals by Native Americans / Richard Stephen Felger -- A botanist's view of the center of the universe / Richard Stephen Felger -- Botanical diversity of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Sonora / Richard Stephen Felger ... [et al.] -- Mammals of the Sonoran Desert borderland reserves / Robert S. Henry -- Birds of Arizona's southwestern borderland / David J. Griffin -- Long-nosed bats and white-winged doves : travels and tribulations of two migrant pollinators / Carlos Martínez del Rio -- Reptiles and amphibians of arid southwestern Arizona and northwestern Sonora / Philip C. Rosen -- Amphibians of Vekol Valley / Erik F. Enderson and Robert L. Bezy -- From the ground up : biological soil crusts in the Sonoran Desert / Jayne Belnap -- Wine of the river / Sandy Lanham -- New life for the Colorado River Delta / Edward P. Glenn and Pamela L. Nagler -- Fishes of the Upper Gulf Biosphere Reserve / Philip A. Hastings and Lloyd T. Findley -- Hovering over the Alto Golfo : the status and conservation of birds from the Río Colorado to the Gran Desierto / Osvel Hinojosa-Huerta ... [et al.] -- Aquatic mammals of the northern Sea of Cortez and Colorado River Delta / Carlos J. Navarro-Serment -- Invertebrate biodiversity in the northern Gulf of California / Richard C. Brusca -- Sea turtles and the Alto Golfo : a struggle for survival / Jeffrey A. Seminoff and Wallace J. Nichols -- In search of el burro, the tidal bore of the Río Colorado Delta / Steve Nelson -- Sonoran Desert National Park / Stewart L. Udall -- Conservation and landscape transformation in northwestern Mexico / Alberto Búrquez and Angelina Martínez-Yrízar -- Growing a conservation community : the CEDO story / Peggy J. Turk Boyer -- Cooperation across borders : a brief history of Sonoran Desert conservation beyond boundaries / Wendy Benner Laird, Joaquin Murrieta-Saldivar and John Shepard -- Vertebrates of the Río Colorado : what can be done? / Eric Mellink -- Last call : leaving something behind / Charles Bowden -- Changing place-names in El Pinacate / Julian D. Hayden -- Our grand desert : a gazetteer / Bill Broyles ... [et al.].
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