An ode to airport-dwelling birds.
Items by Renee Guillory
In the anthology There’s This
River, Christa Sadler gathers the stories of rambunctious
river rafters on the Grand Canyon’s Colorado River
Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva loves fighting for
old-fashioned liberal causes like immigration rights, the
environment, unions and strong social programs
In George W. Bush’s Healthy Forests:
Reframing the Environmental Debate, authors Jacqueline
Vaughn and Hanna Cortner demonstrate that under Bush, "there has
been a rollback of environmental standards and
regulations."
In The San Luis Valley: Sand Dunes and Sandhill
Cranes, Susan Tweit explores a remarkable Colorado
landscape
Sonoran Desert Plants: An Ecological
Atlas is a revised and expanded edition of a classic
botanical guide
In Folding Paper Cranes: An Atomic Memoir, former U.S.
Marine Leonard Bird offers a heartbreaking and yet hopeful personal
account of nuclear war
Lesley Poling-Kempes tells the story of a legendary New
Mexico resort and its many lovers in her absorbing new book,
Ghost Ranch
Photographer Mark Klett has made an art of rephotographing
Western landscapes first documented about 100 years ago
A landowner locks a gate on a road into Arizona’s
Aravaipa Canyon, highlighting an increasingly bitter debate over
access to public lands in the West
Barren, Wild and Worthless: Living in the
Chihuahuan Desert, Susan Tweit’s New Mexico memoir,
is back in print
Mary Sojourner has written 50 vignettes in "Bonelight:
Ruin and Grace in the New Southwest," a book of personal stories
revolving around her hometown of Flagstaff, Ariz.
John Nichols' new novel, "The Voice of the Butterfly," is
an environmental morality play that pulls no punches.
"Fresh, Organic and Native Foods of the Colorado Plateau"
is a directory to the farmers' markets and restaurants in the Four
Corners where such foods can be found.
In "Fool's Gold: Lives, Loves, and Misadventures in the
Four Corners Country," Rob Schultheis tells of life in Telluride,
Colo., from its ramshackle hippie days in the 1970s to its growth
into an expensive ski resort.
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