Biotic Communities
Biotic Communities

Author: David Earl Brown

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13:

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Biotic Communities catalogs and defines by biome, or biotic community, the region centered on Arizona, New Mexico, Sonora, Chihuahua, and Baja California Norte, plus portions of California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Texas, Coahuila, Sinaloa, and Baja California Sur. This ambitious guide is an essential companion for anyone working in natural resources management and ecological research, as well as nonspecialists looking for solid information about a particular southwestern locale. Biotic Communities is arranged by climatic formation with a short chapter for each biome describing climate, physiognomy, distribution, dominant and common plant species, and characteristic vertebrates. Subsequent chapters contain careful descriptions of zonal subdivisions.

One Hundred Years in Yosemite
One Hundred Years in Yosemite

Author: Carl Parcher Russell

Publisher: Yosemite Assn

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 9780939666607

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This is a reprint of a time-tested history of Yosemite National Park by one of its most respected historians. It portrays in terms of human experience the growth of a distinct and unique conception of land management, and chronicles the thoughts and efforts of those who contributed to it. It tells of the obstacles overcome and of the pressures to break down the park concept and turn Yosemite to commercial and other ends that would deface its beauty and impair its significance. For these reasons, the book is more than a history. It traces the evolution of an idea.

Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast
Perishable Material Culture in the Northeast

Author: Penelope B. Drooker

Publisher: University of State of New York

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13:

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The individual chapters include both regional overviews and case histories of surviving evidence for these types of objects in the Northeast, with analyses of their importance in the social economy of the region. They employ both primary evidence (actual objects or fragments of them) and secondary evidence (such as impressions of fabrics in pottery, metal pseudomorphs, or images of objects). A large number of the chapters provide information on cordage and fabrics; many include bark, wood, and leather objects as well.

Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar
Ancestral Encounters in Highland Madagascar

Author: Zoë Crossland

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 9781139889766

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Examines encounters between the living and the dead in nineteenth-century highland Madagascar, considering the challenges that ghostly actors pose for writing history.