Download or read book Arizona Sonora Desert Museum a Scrapbook written by Peggy Pickering Larson and published by . This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This full color book celebrates the first 50 years of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
Download or read book A Sonoran Desert Scrapbook written by William Little and published by . This book was released on 2022-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arizona Sonora Desert Museum written by Peggy Pickering Larson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1952, Bill Carr and Arthur Pack, the founders of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, have inspired visitors to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert. When the museum opened it had only four employees. Today it has more than 100 paid employees, nearly 200 docents, and close to 300 volunteers. About 85 percent of the museum is outside, where visitors can enjoy native and the endangered animals exhibited in award-winning naturalistic habitat enclosures, an innovation in exhibitory developed by the museum. Most visitors spend between two and three hours touring the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, but as the museum continues to grow, it is becoming harder and harder to see it all in such a short amount of time. Visitors should plan to come early and stay late!
Download or read book Arizona Sonora Desert Museum written by Peggy Pickering Larson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1952, Bill Carr and Arthur Pack, the founders of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, have inspired visitors to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert. When the museum opened it had only four employees. Today it has more than 100 paid employees, nearly 200 docents, and close to 300 volunteers. About 85 percent of the museum is outside, where visitors can enjoy native and the endangered animals exhibited in award-winning naturalistic habitat enclosures, an innovation in exhibitory developed by the museum. Most visitors spend between two and three hours touring the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, but as the museum continues to grow, it is becoming harder and harder to see it all in such a short amount of time. Visitors should plan to come early and stay late!
Download or read book Desert Scrapbook written by Virginia Wright-Frierson and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2002-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning hours, an artist stirs. Gathering her paints and notebook, she heads into the Arizona Sonoran Desert to explore its treasures. Sketching, painting, and writing, she records all that she sees and as night falls, she spreads out her pictures to make this scrapbook of her day, from dawn to dusk.
Download or read book Treasured Legacies written by Peggy Larson and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-06 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasured Legacies is a stunning visual celebration of Priscilla Baldwin's contributions to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM), as both an internationally-recognized artist and a long-time conservationist. Through photographs and scratchboard art, this beautiful book includes a history of the ASDM, from its establishment in 1952 to ongoing initiatives that continue the founders' vision of conservation, preservation, and education. Discover the Sonoran Desert through Baldwin's message of Conservation: The Gift of Life, a series of unique artworks celebrating successes in stewardship. Treasured Legacies is a stunning visual celebration of Priscilla Baldwin's contributions to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM), as both an internationally-recognized artist and a long-time conservationist. Through photographs and scratchboard art, this beautiful book includes a history of the ASDM, from its establishment in 1952 to ongoing initiatives that continue the founders' vision of conservation, preservation, and education. Discover the Sonoran Desert through Baldwin's message of "Conservation: The Gift of Life", a series of unique artworks celebrating successes in stewardship. Experience the magic of Hal Gras' Desert Ark, a beloved outreach program that brought desert animals to schools and organizations for more than 30 years, that taught generations of children - and adults - to enjoy and respect the natural world. Soar with majestic birds of prey in the modern conservation experience called Raptor Free Flight, which continues to amaze and inform audiences of all ages. And join Priscilla and the Desert Museum in looking ahead to the future of conservation in zoos and aquariums. #### Priscilla Baldwin and her husband, Michael, are responsible for the founding of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum's Art Institute, which features art education classes, gallery exhibitions, an Artist-in-Residence Program, and a permanent Museum art collection. Priscilla Baldwin has been critical in furthering ASDM's conservation efforts through art, art education, and the Museum at large. The ASDM Press is proud to honor her contributions in Treasured Legacies.
Download or read book A Sonoran Desert Scrapbook written by William J. Little and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author Bill Little introduces the reader to the seven divisions of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Sonora and Baja California, and then takes you on a tour to discover desert plants from Nogales to Kino Bay with side trips to Puerto Libertad and Tastiota - all in the state of Sonora. Along the way you'll see the weird, the exotic, the rare, and many other beautiful plants of this unique piece of the Sonoran Desert. Written in an easy-to-understand manner, the Sonoran Desert Scrapbook has close-up and general view color photos for each plant, a complete description, including flowering time, and a location where each plant can be seen. Sonora is also the ancient homeland of the Seri Indians, and this book covers the ethnobotany and supernatural beliefs of the Seri for many of the plants they used. The detail and photography in this book will be enjoyed by tourists as well as the more serious native plant enthusiast. William J. Little has a degree in Forest-Range Management from Colorado State University. During a thirty year career with the U.S. Forest Service, he worked in Oregon, Idaho, and Utah, serving as either a forester, forest ranger, or range specialist. After retiring from the Forest Service, he was a range and environmental consultant. Bill has now turned his attention to one of the more fascinating desert areas of the world and has spent the past fifteen years roaming the Sonoran Desert in Arizona, Sonora, and Baja California to study and photograph its unique variety of plants. The result is this guide to some of the most interesting and unusual plants found in the deserts lining the Sea of Cortes near Kino Bay, Sonora, Mexico.
Download or read book American Zoo written by David Grazian and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A close-up look at the contradictions and wonders of the modern zoo Orangutans swing from Kevlar-lined fire hoses. Giraffes feast on celebratory birthday cakes topped with carrots instead of candles. Hi-tech dinosaur robots growl among steel trees, while owls watch animated cartoons on old television sets. In American Zoo, sociologist David Grazian takes us on a safari through the contemporary zoo, alive with its many contradictions and strange wonders. Trading in his tweed jacket for a zoo uniform and a pair of muddy work boots, Grazian introduces us to zookeepers and animal rights activists, parents and toddlers, and the other human primates that make up the zoo's social world. He shows that in a major shift away from their unfortunate pasts, American zoos today emphasize naturalistic exhibits teeming with lush and immersive landscapes, breeding programs for endangered animals, and enrichment activities for their captive creatures. In doing so, zoos blur the imaginary boundaries we regularly use to separate culture from nature, humans from animals, and civilization from the wild. At the same time, zoos manage a wilderness of competing priorities—animal care, education, scientific research, and recreation—all while attempting to serve as centers for conservation in the wake of the current environmental and climate-change crisis. The world of the zoo reflects how we project our own prejudices and desires onto the animal kingdom, and invest nature with meaning and sentiment. A revealing portrayal of comic animals, delighted children, and feisty zookeepers, American Zoo is a remarkable close-up exploration of a classic cultural attraction.
Download or read book Making Sense written by Juli Kendall and published by Stenhouse Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is all about understanding, and many English language learners simply do not understand what they are reading. Juli Kendall and Outey Khuon believe that small group comprehension lessons have a key role to play in advancing students' comprehension of texts. Making Sense outlines fifty-two lessons that teach students how to make connections, ask questions, visualize (make mental images), infer, determine importance, and synthesize. The book's five main sections are geared to the stages o
Download or read book A Desert Food Chain written by Rebecca Hogue Wojahn and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gives readers an exciting glimpse into animals and their habitats while illuminating curriculum concepts related to food webs and biomes.
Download or read book Defying Death in the Desert written by Gary Jeffrey and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2010-01-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desert is one of the harshest and deadliest environments for humans, but were still inevitably drawn to this vast, parched landscape. This vibrantly illustrated book presents fascinating true stories of desert survival that are unforgettable.
Download or read book HIDDEN LIFE OF THE DESERT written by Thomas Alan Wiewandt and published by co-published by Wild Horizons Publishing, Inc. (dba Wild Horizons Productions) and Mountain Press Publishing Co.. This book was released on 2022-09-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Hiding in Deserts written by Deborah Underwood and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2011 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces readers to desert habitats and the animals that use camouflage to survive in them.
Download or read book The Wonder of Wolves written by Sandra Chrisholm Robinson and published by Roberts Rinehart. This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the story The Mask of the Wolf to a collection of engaging activities, this informative book ecites children adn adults about wolves. Carefully researched adn fully illustrated, The Wonder of Wolves is an invaluable resource about one of nature's most mallgned and misunderstood animals-the wolf. Ages 8-12
Download or read book Twentieth Century Champions of Parks and Conservation The Pugsley Medal recipients 1928 1964 written by John L. Crompton and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pugsley Medals, which have been awarded annually since 1928, are perhaps the most prestigious awards given to recognise outstanding contributors to the field of parks and conservation Responsibility for selecting the recipients has shifted from the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the National Park Foundation, and most recently to the American Academy for Park and Recreation Administration.
Download or read book Ethnobiology for the Future written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnobiology holds a special place in the hearts and minds of many because of its dedication to celebrating the knowledge and values of some of the most distinctive cultural practices in some of the most distinctive places on Earth. Yet we live in a world of diminishing natural and linguistic diversity. Whether due to climate change or capitalism, homogeneity is trumping the once-resplendent heterogeneity all around us. In this important new collection, Gary Paul Nabhan puts forth a call for the future not only of ethnobiology but for the entire planet. He articulates and broadens the portfolio of ethnobiological principles and amplifies the tool kit for anyone engaged in the ethnobiosphere, those vital spaces of intense interaction among cultures, habitats, and creatures. The essays are grouped into a trio of themes. The first group presents the big questions facing humanity, the second profiles tools and methodologies that may help to answer those questions, and the third ponders how to best communicate these issues not merely to other scholars, but to society at large. The essays attest to the ways humans establish and circumscribe their identities not only through their thoughts and actions, but also with their physical, emotional, and spiritual attachments to place, flora, fauna, fungi, and feasts. Nabhan and his colleagues from across disciplines and cultures encourage us to be courageous enough to include ethical, moral, and even spiritual dimensions in work regarding the fate of biocultural diversity. The essays serve as cairns on the critical path toward an ethnobiology that is provocative, problem-driven, and, above all, inspiring.
Download or read book Discover Science Nature written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a variety of information on plants, animals, and environments around the world.
