Aliens in the Backyard: Plant and Animal Imports to America John Leland 248 pages, hardcover: $29.95 University of South Carolina Press, 2005. We know by now that exotic species often wreak havoc: Asian tiger mosquitoes spread West Nile virus, Australian eucalyptus trees increase California’s fire risk. But Leland shows us that they can bring benefits, […]
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Posted inSeptember 5, 2005: Rangeland Revival
Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936
Maverick Autobiographies: Women Writers and the American West, 1900-1936 Cathryn Halverson 230 pages, hardcover: $45 The University of Wisconsin Press, 2004. Probably you’ve never heard of the three Western women featured in this book. But if you’re not put off by literary criticism or footnotes, you’ll meet Mary MacLane, who lived in Butte, Mont., and […]
Posted inSeptember 5, 2005: Rangeland Revival
Atlas of Pacific Salmon
Atlas of Pacific Salmon Xanthippe Augerot 150 pages, hardcover: $34.95 University of California Press and State of the Salmon, 2005. As far-ranging as the salmon itself, this book examines the state of Oncorhynchus species on both sides of the North Pacific. Packed with colorful maps, photos and graphics, the work is science-based but readable and […]
Posted inAugust 22, 2005: A Military Town Fights for its Life
Military Base Closures in the West
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Leavin’ on a Jet Plane.” BASES ON CURRENT BRAC REALIGNMENT/CLOSURE LIST 1. Cannon Air Force Base, Clovis, NM 2. Naval Base, Coronado, CA 3. Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA 4. Navy Broadway Complex, San Diego, CA 5. Naval Support Activity, Corona, CA 6. […]
Posted inAugust 8, 2005: The Gangs of Zion
The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism
The Battle over Hetch Hetchy: America’s Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern Environmentalism by Robert W. Righter 277 pages, hardover $30: Oxford University press, 2005 Robert Righter, a history professor at Southern Methodist University, chronicles the damming of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Although the water needs of San Francisco […]
Posted inAugust 8, 2005: The Gangs of Zion
High Country
High Country by Willard Wyman, 160 Pages, hardcover $24.95: University of Oklahoma Press, September 2005. If by now you’ve tired of the summer-reading crop of spy thrillers and cheesy romances, try this Depression-era novel about a boy, Ty Hardin, who leaves the family ranch in Montana to become a mulepacker. After being wounded in World […]
Posted inJuly 25, 2005: The Many Faces of Richard Pombo
Complete History of New Mexico
Complete History of New Mexico Kevin McIlvoy, 174 pages, paperback $15: Graywolf Press, 2004. This collection of short stories from a Las Cruces-based writer is published by the independent Graywolf Press. Kevin McIlvoy’s stories are written from a variety of perspectives — from 11-year-old Chum telling the history of the state as he sees it, […]
Posted inJuly 25, 2005: The Many Faces of Richard Pombo
Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures
Outgrowing the Earth: The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures Lester R. Brown, 272 pages, hardcover $27.95, paperback $15.95: W.W. Norton, 2005. Lester Brown, the environmental world’s leading prophet of doom, brings us his latest nonfiction disaster thriller. As world populations boom, farmers reach deeper and deeper underground […]
Posted inJuly 25, 2005: The Many Faces of Richard Pombo
Pueblo Indian Agriculture
Pueblo Indian Agriculture James A. Vlasich, 384 pages, hardcover $34.95: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. James Vlasich explores the American Indian farms along New Mexico’s Rio Grande. The 19 pueblos there have endured — despite Spanish conquistadors, land and water disputes with Anglo settlers, and the vagaries of U.S. Indian policy. Now, the Body […]
Posted inJuly 25, 2005: The Many Faces of Richard Pombo
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Posted inJune 27, 2005: Reflections on a Divided Land
Peering into the life of the prairie
In Prairie: A Natural History, Candace Savage celebrates the beauty and diversity of the great grasslands of North America, a land she describes as “flesh of my flesh and bone of my bone.” The lavishly illustrated book features colorful photographs by James R. Page and charming pen-and-ink drawings by Joan A. Williams. 300 pages, hardcover, […]
Posted inJune 13, 2005: Owning a Piece of Paradise
William Henry Jackson’s ‘The Pioneer Photographer’
William Henry Jackson’s ‘The Pioneer Photographer’ Bob Blair, 248 pages, clothbound: $39.95. Museum of New Mexico Press, 2005. William Henry Jackson was the official photographer for Ferdinand V. Hayden’s survey of the Western territory from 1870-1878. Now, Bob Blair has compiled photos, map sketches, paintings and notes into a fun coffee-table book. Chapters range from […]
Posted inJune 13, 2005: Owning a Piece of Paradise
Desire
Desire Lindsay Ahl, 231 pages, paperback: $14. Coffeehouse Press, 2004. If you’ve ever crept around the alley south of Albuquerque’s Central Avenue, you’ll be immediately drawn into this new novel by Santa Fe writer Lindsay Ahl. And even if you’ve never been to the Duke City, there’s good writing and fun action to draw you […]
Posted inJune 13, 2005: Owning a Piece of Paradise
Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park
Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park Peter Nabokov and Lawrence Loendorf, 400 pages, hardcover: $39.95. University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. There’s plenty of talk about keeping bison and wolves in the nation’s flagship national park, but few people realize that American Indians were evicted from the area to make way for tourists, […]
Posted inMay 30, 2005: Write-off on the Range
The Singing Life of Birds
The Singing Life of Birds Donald Kroodsma, 482 pages, hardcover: $28.00. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. Have you ever wished you could distinguish the song of a wood thrush from that of a hermit thrush? Kroodsman’s new book combines his personal observations of birds with scientific descriptions of how they develop their songs. Accompanying diagrams show the […]
Posted inMay 30, 2005: Write-off on the Range
Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front
Little Things in a Big Country: An Artist and Her Dog on the Rocky Mountain Front Hannah Hinchman, 176 pages, hardcover: $25.95. W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. This hand-lettered, hand-illustrated book tells of Hinchman’s travels with her dog in western Montana. Her charming yet refreshingly unsentiminetal descriptions, sketches, and paintings illustrate the changing seasons, her […]
Posted inMay 30, 2005: Write-off on the Range
Wild Echoes: Encounters With the Most Endangered Animals in North America
Wild Echoes: Encounters With the Most Endangered Animals in North America Charles Bergman, 325 pages, softcover: $21.95. University of Illinois Press, 2003. Biologists know that human activities are causing thousands of species to go extinct. According to Bergman, our attitudes contribute to extinction just as much as our automobiles do. By imagining animals as separate […]
Posted inMay 30, 2005: Write-off on the Range
Conservation Easement Statistics
Note: This article is a sidebar to this issue’s feature story, “Write-off on the Range.” 1.1 billion Total private acres in United States 2 million Number of acres of “development sprawl” consuming landscapes per year 800,000 Number of acres of land protected by local and regional land trusts per year, either in new conservation easements […]
Posted inMay 16, 2005: Unsalvageable
The Guymas Chronicles
The Guaymas Chronicles, David E. Stuart, 394 pages, hardcover $24.95. University of New Mexico Press, 2003. Anyone familiar with Southwestern archaeology will recognize the name David Stuart. Only this time, he’s not authoring a ground-breaking study of the Anasazi; he’s writing a memoir of the time he spent in Mexico during the early 1970s. It’s […]
Posted inMay 16, 2005: Unsalvageable
Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music andStories of Undocumented Immigrants
Alambrista and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Film, Music and Stories of Undocumented Immigrants, Edited by Nicholas J. Cull and Davíd Carrasco, 192 pages, softcover with DVD $34.95. University of New Mexico Press, 2004. When the movie Alambrista first appeared in 1977, it took viewers by surprise. No moviemakers had ever shown what it was like to […]