Our Historic Desert
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Our Historic Desert
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Author : Diana Lindsay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Our Historic Desert written by Diana Lindsay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Anza-Borrego Desert State Park categories.
Our Historic Desert
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Author : Diana Lindsay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Our Historic Desert written by Diana Lindsay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Anza-Borrego Desert State Park categories.
Full history of the region from prehistory to present-day paved roads and resort areas.
Our Historic Desert
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Author : Diana Elaine Lindsay
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Our Historic Desert written by Diana Elaine Lindsay and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
Anza Borrego Desert Region
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Author : Diana Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: Wilderness Press
Release Date : 2010-05-10
Anza Borrego Desert Region written by Diana Lindsay and has been published by Wilderness Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-10 with Travel categories.
Now in its expanded 5th edition, The Anza-Borrego Desert Region offers complete coverage of the over 1 million acres of desert lands, including Anza-Borrego State Park, Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Recreation Area (OWSVRA), parts of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument, and adjacent BLM recreational and wilderness lands.
The Arid Lands
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Author : Diana K. Davis
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2016-03-25
The Arid Lands written by Diana K. Davis and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-25 with Nature categories.
An argument that the perception of arid lands as wastelands is politically motivated and that these landscapes are variable, biodiverse ecosystems, whose inhabitants must be empowered. Deserts are commonly imagined as barren, defiled, worthless places, wastelands in need of development. This understanding has fueled extensive anti-desertification efforts—a multimillion-dollar global campaign driven by perceptions of a looming crisis. In this book, Diana Davis argues that estimates of desertification have been significantly exaggerated and that deserts and drylands—which constitute about 41% of the earth's landmass—are actually resilient and biodiverse environments in which a great many indigenous people have long lived sustainably. Meanwhile, contemporary arid lands development programs and anti-desertification efforts have met with little success. As Davis explains, these environments are not governed by the equilibrium ecological dynamics that apply in most other regions. Davis shows that our notion of the arid lands as wastelands derives largely from politically motivated Anglo-European colonial assumptions that these regions had been laid waste by “traditional” uses of the land. Unfortunately, such assumptions still frequently inform policy. Drawing on political ecology and environmental history, Davis traces changes in our understanding of deserts, from the benign views of the classical era to Christian associations of the desert with sinful activities to later (neo)colonial assumptions of destruction. She further explains how our thinking about deserts is problematically related to our conceptions of forests and desiccation. Davis concludes that a new understanding of the arid lands as healthy, natural, but variable ecosystems that do not necessarily need improvement or development will facilitate a more sustainable future for the world's magnificent drylands.
A Natural History Of The Sonoran Desert
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Author : Steven J. Phillips
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2000
A Natural History Of The Sonoran Desert written by Steven J. Phillips and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
"A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert provides the most complete collection of Sonoran Desert natural history information ever compiled and is a perfect introduction to this biologically rich desert of North America."--BOOK JACKET.
Coloring Plants Used By Desert Indians
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Author : Diana Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications
Release Date : 2018-02
Coloring Plants Used By Desert Indians written by Diana Lindsay and has been published by Sunbelt Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Over a period of thousands of years, Native Americans experimented and learned how to use plants to provide virtually everything they needed to survive. Their environment became the local grocery store, drug store, hardware store, and department store to provide needed food, medicine, tools, and materials to make clothing, kitchen tools, hunting equipment, regalia, toys, and adornments. Desert Indians are particularly blessed with an environment that provided the greatest diversity of plants that could be processed for a variety of uses. This book has 40 key plants that desert Indians primarily living in the Sonora Desert of Southern California, Baja California (Mexico), and Arizona have used for centuries. Many of the same or similar species are found in the Mojave Desert of Southern California and parts of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, and also the Great Basin Desert of California, Nevada, and parts of Utah, Oregon, and Idaho. Use of the plants by the various bands is similar although the language and cultural differences among these people are very diverse. The commonality for all is the continuing importance of key plants to provide necessities of everyday life. The Color and Learn series will help you learn about these plants as you apply your creative art strokes to bring the plants to life.
The Desert Remembers My Name
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Author : Kathleen Alcal‡
language : en
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Release Date : 2007-04-26
The Desert Remembers My Name written by Kathleen Alcal‡ and has been published by University of Arizona Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-04-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
My parents always told me I was Mexican. I was Mexican because they were Mexican. This was sometimes modified to ÒMexican American,Ó since I was born in California, and thus automatically a U.S. citizen. But, my parents said, this, too, was once part of Mexico. My father would say this with a sweeping gesture, taking in the smog, the beautiful mountains, the cars and houses and fast-food franchises. When he made that gesture, all was cleared away in my mindÕs eye to leave the hazy impression of a better place. We were here when the white people came, the Spaniards, then the Americans. And we will be here when they go away, he would say, and it will be part of Mexico again. Thus begins a lyrical and entirely absorbing collection of personal essays by esteemed Chicana writer and gifted storyteller Kathleen Alcal‡. Loosely linked by an exploration of the many meanings of Òfamily,Ó these essays move in a broad arc from the stories and experiences of those close to her to those whom she wonders about, like Andrea Yates, a mother who drowned her children. In the process of digging and sifting, she is frequently surprised by what she unearths. Her family, she discovers, were Jewish refugees from the Spanish Inquisition who took on the trappings of Catholicism in order to survive. Although the essays are in many ways personal, they are also universal. When she examines her family history, she is encouraging us to inspect our own families, too. When she investigates a family secret, she is supporting our own search for meaning. And when she writes that being separated from our indigenous culture is Òa form of illiteracy,Ó we know exactly what she means. After reading these essays, we find that we have discovered not only why Kathleen Alcal‡ is a writer but also why we appreciate her so much. She helps us to find ourselves.
Marshal South And The Ghost Mountain Chronicles
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Author : Marshal South
language : en
Publisher: Sunbelt Publications, Inc.
Release Date : 2005
Marshal South And The Ghost Mountain Chronicles written by Marshal South and has been published by Sunbelt Publications, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the 1940s, Marshal South chronicled his family's controversial primitive lifestyle on Ghost Mountain, in what is now Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in southern California, through popular monthly articles written for Desert Magazine. This is the complete collection, along with never-before-published photos of the family.
Red Desert
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Author : Annie Proulx
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2012-07-25
Red Desert written by Annie Proulx and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-25 with Science categories.
A photographic and multidisciplinary study of one of America’s last undeveloped—and most endangered—landscapes, edited by a Pulitzer Prize–winning author. A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North America's largest untapped reservoirs of natural gas, the Red Desert is a magnet for energy producers who are damaging its complex and fragile ecosystem in a headlong race to open a new domestic source of energy and reap the profits. To capture and preserve what makes the Red Desert both valuable and scientifically and historically interesting, writer Annie Proulx and photographer Martin Stupich enlisted a team of scientists and scholars to join them in exploring the Red Desert through many disciplines: geology, hydrology, paleontology, ornithology, zoology, entomology, botany, climatology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and history. Their essays reveal many fascinating, often previously unknown facts about the Red Desert—everything from the rich pocket habitats that support an amazing diversity of life to engrossing stories of the transcontinental migrations that began in prehistory and continue today on I-80—which bisects the Red Desert. Complemented by Martin Stupich’s photo-essay, which portrays both the beauty and the devastation that characterize the region today, Red Desert bears eloquent witness to a unique landscape in its final years as a wild place./