Chiricahua Mountains: Bridging the Borders of Wildness (Desert Places) by Ken Lamberton, Jeff Garton
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Title:
Chiricahua Mountains: Bridging the Borders of Wildness (Desert Places)
Author:
Ken Lamberton, Jeff Garton
ISBN:
0816522901
ISBN13:
978-0816522903
Size PDF:
1475 kb
Size epub:
1714 kb
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press; First Edition, First Printing edition (October 1, 2003)
Language:
English
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Lamberton shares insights about the geology, habitats, and diversity of wildlife in a place of such isolation that species must either adapt or become extinct. The Chiricahuas are one link in a chain of mountains connecting the Rockies to the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico, and some Madrean species reach the northernmost extension of their ranges here: birds like sulphur-bellied flycatchers, mammals like jaguarundis, and trees like the Apache pine. But this is not an untraveled wilderness. We learn why the Chiricahuas are so popular with birders, who flock to these mountains from around the world in the hopes of spotting some of the nearly four hundred avian species found here. We also learn something of the Chiricahua's rich human culture, from Apache warriors to European settlers.
Gracing the text are more than a dozen black-and-white photographs by Jeff Garton that offer views of the Chiricahuas different from those usually found in tourist brochures: landscapes and riparian settings, rock formations and plant studies that give readers a lasting impression of the beauty and tranquility of this wilderness. Together words and images convey an intimate view of one of the Southwest's most exotic locations—stronghold, paradise, and everlasting island in the vast and rolling desert.