Deserts of California

ABRIDGED TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction: A Promise of Life and Death: Journey into the Desert Heart


Keys and measures


1. The Dire and the Sublime: Exploring California desert physiography


2. Every Sacred Drop: California desert water


3. The Living Network: Desert plant habitats


4. Big Desert Parcels of Federal and State Land: Parks, monuments, and military inholdings


5. Of Sagebrush and Solitude: The Great Basin Desert in California


6. Of Resilience and Fragility: The Mojave Desert in California


7. Of the Remote and the Rugged: The Colorado-Sonoran Desert in California


8. Philosophies of What Comes Next: California's Tomorrow Desert


Acknowledgments


Glossary


Notes


Selected Bibliography


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• Conservação do ambiente
• Zonas áridas, desertos

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