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- Library Collection RecordWith the Midwest under water, America had a chance to see how effectively it had "improved" its rivers. We've straightened and dredged them, revetted and rerouted them, made massive…Publication Date 1994
- Geomorphology
- river channels
- rivers
- sediment transport
- Library Collection RecordThe mixed grass and shrub vegetation known to scientists as desert grassland is common to the basins and valleys that skirt the mountain ranges throughout southwestern North America, extending from…Publication Date 1995
- desert grasslands
- deserts
- Southwestern United States
- United States
- Library Collection RecordSavannas are ecosytems with a continuous grass layer and scattered trees or shrubs. These lands occupy nearly a third of the earth’s land surface and are an important resource not only in world…Publication Date 1997
- range management
- Savanna ecology
- savannas
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAs a guide to determining historic reference conditions of a landscape, this text makes connections between past and future ecosystems, bringing together leading experts to offer an introduction to…Publication Date 2001
- biotic communities
- conservation
- human ecology
- Library Collection RecordAims to advance the science behind the practice of restoring ecosystems, while exploring ways in which restoration ecology can inform basic ecological questions. This work provides a comprehensive…Publication Date 2006
- restoration ecology
- Library Collection RecordDryland degradation and desertification now affect almost a billion people around the world. Tragically, the biological resources and productivity of millions of acres of land are lost to…Publication Date 2007
- arid ecosystems
- deserts
- restoration ecology
- United States
- Library Collection RecordRangeland ecosystems support half of the world's livestock while also providing habitats for some of the most charismatic of wildlife species. This book examines the pressures on rangeland…Publication Date 2010
- grassland animals
- grazing
- livestock
- range management
- Library Collection Record"There is a story almost totally unknown outside the West, but urgently discussed every day now in the western press: the story of a steadily growing number of local agreements among western…Publication Date 2003
- New Mexico
- ranching
- range management
- rangeland ecology
- United States
- Library Collection RecordBy the mid-1990s, debates over the region's damaged land had devolved into political wrangling, bitter lawsuits, and even death-threats. Those who wanted to work the land and those who wanted to…Publication Date 2008
- Arizona
- conservation
- grassland restoration
- New Mexico
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordBy the mid-1990s, debates over the region's damaged land had devolved into political wrangling, bitter lawsuits, and even death-threats. Those who wanted to work the land and those who wanted to…Publication Date 2008
- Arizona
- conservation
- grassland restoration
- New Mexico
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis book tackles an increasingly crucial question: What can we do about the seemingly intractable challenges confronting all of humanity today, including climate change, global hunger, water…Publication Date 2014
- biodiversity
- carbon sequestration
- climate change
- Composting
- conservation
- no-tillage
- soil carbon
- United States
- water scarcity
- Watershed Restoration
- Library Collection RecordEchoes of the Conquistadores tells the story of the Aguirres family, one of the first families to live in the Altar Valley. The Aguirres played an important role in the valley, running a store, a…Publication Date 1983
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Buenos Aires Ranch
- history
- ranching
- settlement
- United States
- Library Collection RecordAdventures in the Apache Country: A Tour through Arizona and Sonora provides a description of the Arivaca and Altar Valleys as well as the Papagueria.Publication Date 1974
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cultural resources
- history
- United States
- Library Collection RecordPhotographer and western writer Dane Coolidge visited Arivaca and the Altar Valley in 1914 and described ranch life, recorded corridos and stories and photographed roundups and people. Originally…Publication Date 1985
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- cultural resources
- history
- United States
- Library Collection RecordPowerful case studies from the borderlands indicate people’s willingness and ability to move beyond simplistic dichotomies of ‘use’ vs. ‘conservation,’ and toward a working West that…Publication Date 1995
- collaboration
- conservation
- grazing
- management
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordPowerful case studies from the borderlands indicate people’s willingness and ability to move beyond simplistic dichotomies of ‘use’ vs. ‘conservation,’ and toward a working West that…Publication Date 1995
- collaboration
- conservation
- grazing
- management
- ranching
- United States
- Library Collection RecordLand and water management is especially critical as the use of upstream watersheds can drastically affect large numbers of people living in downstream watersheds. This work examines the institutional…
- United States
- watershed management
- Library Collection RecordErma Fiske recounts her adventures living at the foothills of the Baboquivaris, recording and banding birds for the Nature Conservancy.Publication Date 1983
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Baboquivari Mountains
- bird banding
- bird surveys
- United States
- Library Collection RecordFire, both inevitable and ubiquitous, plays a crucial role in North American ecosystems. But as necessary as fire is to maintaining healthy ecosystems, it threatens human lives and livelihoods in…Publication Date 2008
- fire management
- fire policy
- prescribed fire
- United States
- wildfire
- Library Collection RecordA practical and theoretical guide to how communities might work together to realize a new political ecology based on a strong sense of place and public life. Source: Collaborative Conservation:…Publication Date 1990
- environment
- human impacts
- political culture
- United States
- Library Collection RecordConservation for a New Generation highlights the dynamic state of how natural resources management is being practiced in the United States today as it transitions from top-down programs and federal…Publication Date 2009
- conservation
- management
- natural resources
- United States
- Library Collection RecordOutlines the social geography of the region over a broad timescale, through the historical experiences of “Indians,†“Hispanos,†and “Anglos.†Source: Collaborative Conservation: History…Publication Date 1971
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- Historical Geography
- Human Geography
- southwest United States
- United States
- Library Collection RecordThis field guide provides photos and information on the wildflowers of southern Arizona.Publication Date 2011
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- wildflowers
- Library Collection RecordThis book provides information on the various species that pollinate Sonoran Desert plants.Publication Date 2004
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- pollinators
- United States
- Library Collection Record
75 Eyes of Fire
In March of 1996 Warner came face to face with a Mexican Jaguar in the wild. Eyes of Fire details the encounter and includes some of the photographs he was able to take of the jaguar.Publication Date 1996- jaguars
- Altar Valley
- Arizona
- United States
- Library Collection RecordA key resource identifying grasses distributed throughout Alaska.Publication Date 2012
- grasses
- identification
- distribution
- Alaska
- Arctic
- Library Collection RecordA publication for the identification of some plants species (grasses, forbs, sedges) of Alaska.ÂPublication Date 2014
- Plant biology
- grasses
- Sedges
- Plant replacement
- vegetation
- Alaska
- Arctic
- forbs
- Library Collection Record[from the Introduction, page 1] "The range condition and trend study is western-wide in scope. Begun in July 1948, it is being carried out through the cooperation of the six western regions and…Publication Date 1950
- watersheds
- United States
- Library Collection RecordFederal Programs for Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry, Entrepreneurship, Conservation and Community Development This guide is written for anyone seeking help from federal programs to foster…Publication Date 2014
- sustainable agriculture
- forestry
- entrepreneurship
- Federal programs
- United States
- Library Collection RecordWild ungulate foraging activities often negatively impact desirable resources, particularly where animal population densities are high. Â Agricultural crops suffer economic damage and natural…Publication Date 1999
- Library Collection RecordAbstract not available.Publication Date 1970
- pasture management
- agriculture
- southern Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, Springer, 233 Spring Street, New York, USA, 418 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-0-387-87491-3. Price €79.95Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 158 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-90-481-2525-8. Price €69.95Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 274 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-4020-8935-0. Price €139.95Publication Date 2009
- Africa
- Library Collection RecordSoils of South Africa is the first book in seventy years that provides a comprehensive account of South African soils. The book arranges more than seventy soil forms into fourteen groups and then…Publication Date 2012
- soil
- South Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Wiley-Blackwell, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Hardcover and softcover, 201pp ISBN 9781405198943 (hardcover), 9781405198950 (softcover). Price £90.00/â Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Earthscan Publications, Dunstan House, 14a St Cross St, London, EC1N 8XA UK Hardcover or softcover, 184 pp ISBN 9781849711449 (hardcover), 9781849711456 (softcover). Price US\$145.00 (hardcover…Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2011, CSIRO Publishing, 150 Oxford Street, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, VIC 3036, Australia 144 pages, softcover ISBN 9780643094437. Price AU\$49.95Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Earthscan Publications, Dunstan House, 14a St Cross St, London, EC1N 8XA, UK Hardcover, 360 pp ISBN 9781844079162. Price £60.00Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Wiley-Blackwell, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK Softcover, 448 pp ISBN 9781405177856. Price £45.00/€54.00Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Klaus Hess Publishers, Sudetenland-Str. 18, 37085 Göttingen, Germany; and PO Box 90624, Windhoek, Namibia Hardcover, 3 volumes, XLIV + 1375 pp + CD-ROM ISBN 9789991657301 (Namibia and South…Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, CSIRO Publishing, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia 416 pp, softcover ISBN 978?0-6430?9402-4. Price AU\$99.95Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Wiley-Blackwell, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK 211 pages, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978?0-470?66101-7 (hardcover), 978?0-470?66102-4 (softcover). Price …Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742, USA 323 pp, hardcover ISBN 978?1-4200?4739-4. Price US\$144.95Publication Date 2011
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2010, Island Press, 1718 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009, USA 396pp, softcover and hardcover ISBN 978?1-59726?671-0 (softcover), 978?1-59726?670-3 (hardcover). Price US\$95 (…Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2009, CSIRO Publishing, PO Box 1139, Collingwood, Victoria 3066, Australia 184 pages, softcover ISBN 978-0-64309-527-4. Price AU\$49.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, James Currey Publishers, Box 242, 266 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 7DL, UK 312 pages, softcover and hardcover ISBN 978-0-85255-990-1 (softcover), 978-0-85255-991-8 (hardcover). Price £17.95 (…Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2007, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK 336 pp, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978?0?19?857065?3 (hardcover), 978?0?19?857066?0 (softcover). Price £60 / £29.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, Oxford University Press, Great Clarendon Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK 305 pages, hardcover and softcover ISBN 978-0-19-852918-7 (hardcover), 978-0-19-852919-4 (softcover). Price £70 / £34.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa
- Library Collection Record2008, Springer, PO Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands 306 pages, hardcover or softcover ISBN 978?1?4020?6848?5 (hardcover), 978?1?4020?6849?2 (softcover). Price €119.95 / €59.95Publication Date 2010
- Africa