HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT
Title | HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Alan Wiewandt |
Publisher | co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co. |
Pages | 122 |
Release | 2022-09-22 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0878427139 |
HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT: And Our Future in the Drying Southwest is a greatly expanded, 120-page 2022/Third Edition, co-published by Wild Horizons and Mountain Press. Part 2 offers an up-to-date, well-researched, thought-provoking, non-technical synthesis of ideas for a future based on “desert thinking for desert living.” In the context of explosive population growth and climate change, consider outdated laws that govern land and water use in the Southwest, how water and energy are connected, pros and cons of desalination, crops suitable for arid lands, agri-solar studies, solar canals, rainwater harvesting, ASU’s exciting new project with “mechanical trees” that collect CO2 from the atmosphere, and more. This book is packed with useful information for students, teachers, and parents. As in his 2nd Edition (2010) of HIDDEN LIFE, Author-Photographer Thomas Wiewandt brightens every page of Part 1 with stunning color photographs of plants and animals that thrive in seemingly barren landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. This book has also served as an educational companion to his award-winning film DESERT DREAMS: Celebrating Five Seasons in the Sonoran Desert, a popular film with no narration that has aired as a pledge drive program on national Public Television since 2015. TAGS: Hidden Life of the Desert; New Edition; 3rd Edition; 2022; book; non-fiction; illustrated book; educational; science; ecology; desert; Sonoran Desert; arid lands; American Southwest; life in; animals; plants; human impact; climate change; population growth; overpopulation; future; sustainable living; water; Colorado River; Lake Powell; Lake Mead; green technology; energy; renewable energy; fossil fuels; agriculture; crops; CAP; Central Arizona Project; desalination; solar canals; agri-solar; agrivoltaic; rainwater harvesting; copper mining; Mechanical Trees; biofuel; invasive species; buffelgrass; desert architecture; maps; photographs; teaching resources; glossary
Hidden Life of the Desert
Title | Hidden Life of the Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Alan Wiewandt |
Publisher | Mountain Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Desert ecology |
ISBN | 9780878425556 |
Takes a photographic tour of the life cycles of the desert, where all creatures must adapt to extremes of heat and cold and the coming and going of the rains.
The Hidden Life of the Desert
Title | The Hidden Life of the Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Alan Wiewandt |
Publisher | Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Desert animals |
ISBN | 9780517573563 |
Photographs and text give a guided tour of animals plants, and ecology of the desert in America's Southwest.
A Natural History of the Mojave Desert
Title | A Natural History of the Mojave Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Lawrence R. Walker |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2018-03-27 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0816532621 |
Invites readers to explore the smallest and most unique southwestern desert, the beautiful Mojave--Provided by publisher.
The Desert Underground
Title | The Desert Underground PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Kobaly |
Publisher | Summertree Institute |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2019-09-12 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9781733238700 |
The Desert Underground is a graphic, virtual tour of the hidden but magnificent world under the surface of desert soils, a realm that silently works under our feet every day. Readers are led along an illustrated tour through our desert soils, delving deeper and deeper into the underground. This tour reveals the amazing partnerships that connect every plant underground across the landscape, and illustrates the interlocking biological and geological systems that work together to create a surprising carbon sponge that helps combat climate change wherever desert soils remain intact.
Hidden Life of an Undersea Desert
Title | Hidden Life of an Undersea Desert PDF eBook |
Author | Eugenie Clark |
Publisher | |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Secret Knowledge of Water
Title | The Secret Knowledge of Water PDF eBook |
Author | Craig Childs |
Publisher | Back Bay Books |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2008-12-14 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0316055301 |
Naturalist Craig Childs's "utterly memorable and fantastic" study of the desert's dangerous beauty is based on years of adventures in the deserts of the American West (Washington Post). Like the highest mountain peaks, deserts are environments that can be inhospitable even to the most seasoned explorers. Craig Childs, who has spent years in the deserts of the American West as an adventurer, a river guide, and a field instructor in natural history, has developed a keen appreciation for these forbidding landscapes: their beauty, their wonder, and especially their paradoxes. His extraordinary treks through arid lands in search of water are an astonishing revelation of the natural world at its most extreme. "Utterly memorable and fantastic...Certainly no reader will ever see the desert in the same way again." —Suzannah Lessard, Washington Post