The essays in Gary Paul Nabhan’s Arab/American
celebrate the landscape, culture and cuisine of two great deserts:
The Middle Eastern lands from which his ancestors came and the
Sonoran Desert he now lives in.
Deserts
They built a coalition to protect open space. Now, they’re up against the country’s largest construction project.
The U.S. is skirting conservation laws and withdrawing millions of gallons of groundwater.
Without its cover of living microorganisms, the desert is eroding.
Botanist Sue Rutman has had surprising success just
yanking up buffelgrass, but herbicides remain the first line of
defense
Golf – the game that brought grass to the desert
– appears to have hit a rough patch in the West
It’s not easy to wean Westerners away from their
lush, traditional, turfgrass lawns, but with drought an increasing
fact of life, Xeriscape gardening is finally catching on
The cactus ferruginous pygmy owl has been removed from the
endangered species list, but Tucson area leaders say they plan to
continue the desert conservation efforts put in place to help the
very rare bird
In Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands,
Tucson author Brad Lancaster gives a hands-on inspirational guide
for how to harvest the desert Southwest’s rare
moisture
Illegal border crossers face a dangerous journey filled
with heat, dust, flies and thirst, and always the danger of capture
and deportation
Live! From Death Valley is John
Soennichsen’s "love letter to an ill-tempered mistress,"
California’s Death Valley
A long solitary hike through an empty, pristine desert is
interrupted by a close encounter with an F-16 fighter
plane
The writer speaks up for alien grasses that spread fire
through the desert
In The Way Out, Craig Childs tells the
true story of how he and a friend explored a Utah desert and, at
the same time, journeyed through their own memories
In Organ Pipe: Life on the Edge, Carol
Ann Bassett pays homage to Organ Pipe National Monument and the
strange beauty of the desert
It took a while, but the writer eventually came to see the strange, harsh beauty of the gnarled old pinon and juniper trees in Canyon Country
Only God can make a tree, but anyone can ruin a
prairie.
Developer George Johnson is being sued by the state of
Arizona for major violations of environmental laws, committed in
the early stages of his planned La Osa Ranch development
The writer drives from Oregon to Death Valley to
experience its once-in-a-lifetime wildflower bonanza
In his anthology, God’s Country or Devil’s
Playground, editor Barney Nelson gathers together an eclectic mix
of the best nature writing from the Big Bend of Texas
The writer travels from New York to Nevada every year,
just to stop on one of the state’s empty highways and listen
to the endless desert silence
Jason Kersten’s Journal of the Dead: A Story of
Friendship and Murder in the New Mexico Desert is an interesting
read, but fails to fully develop the story of Raffi Kodikian, who
stabbed his best friend, David Coughlin, in an apparent mercy
killing
Charles Bowden’s book, Killing the Hidden Waters,
which explores the Sonoran Desert world of the Papago Indians, has
been re-released after 25 years
- A viral coyote-badger video demonstrates the incredible complexity of nature
- Billionaires are changing communities and the wild in Wyoming
- Interior finalizes plans to welcome industry into Utah monuments
- One woman took a stand against tribal disenrollment and paid for it
- The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe reintroduces bighorn sheep on tribal lands
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