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Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Cooper Square Pub
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780873588454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA packrat, carrying fruit from the giant saguaro, is chased by various desert animals and inadvertently helps spread the cactus's seed. Includes information on saguaros.
Author: Barbara Bash
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2002-09-06
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781578050857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA venerable saguaro cactus stands like a statue in the hot desert landscape, its armlike branches reaching fifty feet into the air. From a distance it appears to be completely still and solitary--but appearances can be deceptive. In fact, this giant tree of the desert is alive with activity. Its spiny trunk and branches are home to a surprising number of animals, and its flowers and fruit feed many desert dwellers. Gila woodpeckers and miniature elf owls make their homes inside the saguaro's trunk. Long-nosed bats and fluttering white doves drink the nectar from its showy white flowers. People also play a role in the saguaro's story: each year the Tohono O'odham Indians gather its sweet fruit in a centuries-old harvest ritual. In this first volume of Sierra Club Books' Tree Tales series, a simple, easy-to-read text and appealing drawings document the life cycle of this amazing cactus tree and the creatures it helps to support. Readers will come away with a better understanding of and a lasting respect for this accomodating giant of the desert.
Author: Brenda Z. Guiberson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1993-10-15
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780805029604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Describes the life cycle of the giant saguaro cactus, with an emphasis on its role as a home for other desert dwellers."--Title page verso.
Author: Anita Holmes
Publisher: Four Winds
Published: 1983-01-01
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780590078795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the first 100 years of the saguaro cactus as it grows from seed to adult plant in the hot, dry desert of Arizona and provides food and shelter for the desert animals.
Author: United States. Forest Service
Publisher: Forest Service
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 1240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rebecca L. Johnson
Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1728429420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTake a walk in the rain forest. It's hot and humid and humming with life. Look up into the dense canopy of leaves above you. Tangled vines lead to the treetops, where parrots squawk and monkeys swing from branch to branch. A poison dart frog clings to a slippery leaf. A sloth creeps through the canopy. The dense rain forest overflows with life. Discover the plants and animals that depend on each other in this unique biome through narrative text, entrancing photos, and illustrations.
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
Published: 2005-06
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780439220354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA counting book in rhyme presents various marine animals and their children, from a mother manatee and her little calf one to a mother octopus and her little babies ten. Complete with a glossary, musical score, and numbers hidden in the illustrations.
Author: David Yetman
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-02-25
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0816540047
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe saguaro, with its great size and characteristic shape—its arms stretching heavenward, its silhouette often resembling a human—has become the emblem of the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. The largest and tallest cactus in the United States, it is both familiar and an object of fascination and curiosity. This book offers a complete natural history of this enduring and iconic desert plant. Gathering everything from the saguaro’s role in Sonoran Desert ecology to its adaptations to the desert climate and its sacred place in Indigenous culture, this book shares precolonial through current scientific findings. The saguaro is charismatic and readily accessible but also decidedly different from other desert flora. The essays in this book bear witness to our ongoing fascination with the great cactus and the plant’s unusual characteristics, covering the saguaro’s: history of discovery, place in the cactus family, ecology, anatomy and physiology, genetics, and ethnobotany. The Saguaro Cactus offers testimony to the cactus’s prominence as a symbol, the perceptions it inspires, its role in human society, and its importance in desert ecology.
Author: Carolyn Niethammer
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2020-09-22
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 0816538891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean, and ranch-style cowboy food traditions. This book offers a food pilgrimage, where stories and recipes demonstrate why the desert city of Tucson became American’s first UNESCO City of Gastronomy. Both family supper tables and the city’s trendiest restaurants feature native desert plants and innovative dishes incorporating ancient agricultural staples. Award-winning writer Carolyn Niethammer deliciously shows how the Sonoran Desert’s first farmers grew tasty crops that continue to influence Tucson menus and how the arrival of Roman Catholic missionaries, Spanish soldiers, and Chinese farmers influenced what Tucsonans ate. White Sonora wheat, tepary beans, and criollo cattle steaks make Tucson’s cuisine unique. In A Desert Feast, you’ll see pictures of kids learning to grow food at school, and you’ll meet the farmers, small-scale food entrepreneurs, and chefs who are dedicated to growing and using heritage foods. It’s fair to say, “Tucson tastes like nowhere else.”
Author: Jen Green
Publisher: New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.
Published: 1998-10-31
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780778701347
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the various animals that live in and around the giant Saguaro cactus in the Sonoran Desert.
