Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6642&N=3+5525+4294963638 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=527748 In recent years, the American West has suffered from unprecedented stand-replacing wildfires, and the government has invested more money in preventative forest thinning than ever before. The crisis for Western forests and woodlands has spurred heated policy debates about thinning, controlled burns, and other restoration activities--Prelim. p. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=266994 One day while studying population maps with a colleague at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, Nabhan recognized a surprising correlation between upheavals in human communities and the incidence of endangered species. Where massive in-migrations and exoduses were taking place, more plants and animals had become endangered. Locations with stable human populations sustained native wildlife more easily over the long term. This revelation prompted Nabhan to spend the next three years studying relationships among cultural diversity, community stability, and conservation of biological diversity in natural habitats. He concentrated on cultures of habitat, human communities with long histories of interacting with one particular kind of terrain and its wildlife. Here the author of The Desert Smells Like Rain has combined the eye of an ethnobiologist with chronicles from the Far Outside, that realm in which diverse natural habitats and indigenous cultures coexist. The result is a mosaic of essays that celebrates the vital connections between soul and space.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=131704 Drawing inspiration from the magical realism of Latin American fiction as much as from the documentary natural history tradition of the North American West, ethnobiologist Gary Paul Nabhan and photographer Mark Klett celebrate the many lives of the Sonoran borderlands. Their Sonoran Desert home is the most biologically and culturally diverse of any arid lands on this continent. As we travel with Nathan and Klett, we hear Seri Indian songs of the summer heat, the bleating of mating desert toads, and the chants of an elderly Hispanic curandera. We catch sight of a night-blooming cereus ready to flower; of homes handmade from the mud, mesquite, and cactus bones surrounding them; and miniature mescal gardens planted for the Virgin Mary. We also confront, face to face the forces threatening to weaken the communities of plants, animals, and cultures of the desert: charcoal making, pesticide spraying, groundwater pumping, overpopulation and rampant ethnocentrism and anthropocentrism. If the damaged deserts of North America are ever to be restored to their wildness and cultural richness we will need a different set of stories and images to guide our conservation and preservation efforts. This is the underlying theme of Desert Legends, which links startling and ironic photographs with ecologically informed parables.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=225167 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=225319 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=225181 Gathering the Desert explores desert plants as calories, cures, and characters and in what season they can be found. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=225162