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Creatures of habitat : the changing nature of wildlife and wild places in Utah and the intermountain West / by Mark Gerard Hengesbaugh ; Dan Miller, photo editor ; foreword by Barry Scholl.
- Title
- Creatures of habitat : the changing nature of wildlife and wild places in Utah and the intermountain West / by Mark Gerard Hengesbaugh ; Dan Miller, photo editor ; foreword by Barry Scholl.
- Author
- Hengesbaugh, Mark Gerard.
- Publication
- Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, 2001.
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- Description
- xi, 212 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Uniform Title
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- Contents
- Foreword: Lessons from song dogs / Barry School -- Introduction: How well do you know your neighbors? -- What's Happening to Wildlife? -- Animal life on the edge: Does it take a special breed? -- Mexican spotted owl -- Desert tortoise -- Gila monster -- Peccary -- Endangered animal communities: The keystone concept -- Utah prairie dog -- Burrowing owl -- Black-footed ferret -- Historic herds: Reintroducing native large animals into today's limited space -- Bison -- Sonoran pronghorn -- Bighorn sheep -- Alpine plants and animals: Hardy inhabitants of Utah's high country -- Alpine island in the sky -- Pika -- Moss campion -- Burke's mustard -- Spotted frog -- Flying squirrel -- Great Basin birds: Frequent flyers at Utah's busiest airport -- Migratory birds on the Great Salt Lake -- Whooping cranes and sandhill cranes -- Loggerhead shirke -- What's Happening to Wild Places? -- Island syndrome extinctions: How small an area is too small for nature to carry on? -- Aliens have invaded! Weeds take over habitat -- Western hydro-logic floods critical wildlife habitat -- Lake Powell -- Jordan River -- Can Utah's golf courses go green? -- Transforming the Wasatch Mountains into an amusement park -- Downhill demographics -- What harm can a ski run do? -- What Does the Future Hold? -- The legacy of predator control -- State-run animal farm -- Tough times for adolescent predators -- Decline of hunting leaves habitat hurting -- The Nature Conservancy of Utah: Wheeling and dealing in race with extinction.
- ISBN
- 0874214173 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2001000415
- OCLC
- 45784218
- SCSB-11950832
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library