Red Desert : history of a place
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Red Desert : history of a place
University of Texas Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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内容説明
A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North America's largest untapped reservoirs of natural gas, the Red Desert is a magnet for energy producers who are damaging its complex and fragile ecosystem in a headlong race to open a new domestic source of energy and reap the profits. To capture and preserve what makes the Red Desert both valuable and scientifically and historically interesting, writer Annie Proulx and photographer Martin Stupich enlisted a team of scientists and scholars to join them in exploring the Red Desert through many disciplinesogeology, hydrology, palaeontology, ornithology, zoology, entomology, botany, climatology, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and history.
Their essays reveal many fascinating, often previously unknown facts about the Red Desertoeverything from the rich pocket habitats that support an amazing diversity of life to engrossing stories of the transcontinental migrations that began in prehistory and continue today on I-80, which bisects the Red Desert. Complemented by Martin Stupich's photo-essay, which portrays both the beauty and the devastation that characterize the region today, Red Desert bears eloquent witness to a unique landscape in its final years as a wild place.
目次
- List of Illustrations
- AbbreviationsI. PhotographsAcknowledgments
- PhotographsII. TextAcknowledgments
- Introduction
- Natural History1. Geology of the Red Desert, by Charles Ferguson
- 2. Water in the Red, by Craig Thompson
- 3. Environmental Change in the Wyoming Basin's Red Desert, by Dudley Gardner
- 4. Titanotheres, Time, and People: A Snapshot of Red Desert Paleontology, by Tom Rea
- 5. Vertebrate Wildlife of the Red Desert, by Gary P. Beauvais
- 6. Birds of the Red Desert, by Andrea Orabona Cerovski
- 7. Horses Come to the Red Desert, by Dudley Gardner
- 8. Insects of the Red Desert: An Exercise in Scientific Humility, by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
- 9. Sagebrush, by George P. Jones
- 10. Bright Green Hues Are Rare: Plant Diversity and Conservation in Wyoming's Red Desert, by Walter and Laura Fertig
- 11. Biological (Cryptobiotic) Soil Crusts of the Red Desert, by Jack States
- Human History
- 12. Early People of the Red Desert, by Dudley Gardner
- 13. The Shoshonis and Westward-Bound Emigrants, by Dudley Gardner
- 14. An Anthropological Impression of Rock Art in the Greater Red Desert, by Russel L. Tanner
- 15. Traversing the Desert, by Annie Proulx
- 16. Forts of the Red Desert, by Annie Proulx
- 17. Fort Bridger and Camps Stambaugh and Pilot Butte, by Dudley Gardner
- 18. Forts Halleck and Fred Steele, by Annie Proulx
- 19. The Union Pacific Railroad Arrives, by Annie Proulx
- 20. The Union Pacific, the Chinese, and the Japanese, by Dudley Gardner
- 21. Inhabitants of the Margins, by Annie Proulx
- 22. The Little Snake River Valley, by Annie Proulx
- 23. Red Desert Ranches, by Annie Proulx
- 24. Horse Bands of the Red Desert, by Annie Proulx
- 25. Opening the Oyster, by Annie Proulx
- 26. Red Desert Outlaws, by Annie Proulx
- 27. History of Conservation Efforts in the Red Desert, by Mac BlewerContributors
- Index
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