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Author Bock, Carl E., 1942-

Title Sonoita Plain : views from a Southwestern grassland / text by Carl E. Bock and Jane H. Bock ; photographs by Stephen E. Strom ; foreword by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Published Tucson : University of Arizona Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 121 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps
Contents List of Illustrations; Foreword -- Patricia Nelson Limerick; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Geography and Ecology of Southwestern Valley; One. Rain; Two. Fire; Three. The Topography of a Grassland; Four. Eat and Be Eaten; Five. Savanna; Six. Open Water; Seven. Sky -- Stephen Strom; Part II. Biodiversity; Eight. Agave; Nine. Snakes; Ten. Jays and Flickers; Eleven. Grass, in the Eyes of a Sparrow; Twelve. Pronghorn Can't Jump; Thirteen. What Is a Weed?; Fourteen. Forbs; Part III. Humans; Fifteen. The First People; Sixteen. Changing Times; Seventeen. Border Crossings
Eighteen. Cows versus CondosNineteen. Sonoita Crossroads; Appendix 1. Common and Scientific Names of Plants and Animals; Appendix 2. Visiting the Research Ranch; Further Reading
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 119)
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Subject Grassland ecology -- Arizona -- Santa Cruz County
NATURE -- General.
Grassland ecology
SUBJECT Santa Cruz County (Ariz.) -- History
Subject Arizona -- Santa Cruz County
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bock, Jane H
ISBN 9780816536429
0816536422