Little Big Bend
Common, Uncommon, and Rare Plants of Big Bend National Park
«Designed for people who want to know what they are looking at in the park, this book is superbly done in text and photographs and is easy to understand. Not only does it depict many of the plants within the park, numerous photographs also capture the surrounding countryside and the beauty of the park. This is a must have book for your next trip to the park. --Kevin R. Tipple ""Morey is a photographer whose work has appeared in Texas Parks and Wildlife and Rangefinder magazines."" ""Of the 252 species profiled in this excellent book, 142 are listed as sensitive, vulnerable, imperiled, or critically imperiled. Little Big Bend is also a photography lover's dream book. It includes more than 300 opulent images printed on glossy pages."" --William Scheick (UT of Austin) ***We are missing the end of this review*** ""...the photos are spectacular, and the lighting and contrast are especially well done...Technical data... is kept to a minimum, so the species discussions are informative but not cluttered. The result is an impressive book that carries on the 19th century ""gentleman naturalist"" tradition of scholarship, enthusiasm, beauty, and meticulous accuracy in illustration."" --Nature Book Review, Nov. 3, 2008 ""[Little Big Bend] reflects one man's passion for the plants and desire to share that passion,"" --Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Joann Karges»
Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. The wide range of habitats within the park - desert, foothills, mountains and moist woodlands, river canyons and floodplain - as well as the Big Bends three major blooming seasons of spring, summer, and fall - guarantee a stunning show of botanical variety throughout the year. Les mer
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Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. The wide range of habitats within the park - desert, foothills, mountains and moist woodlands, river canyons and floodplain - as well as the Big Bends three major blooming seasons of spring, summer, and fall - guarantee a stunning show of botanical variety throughout the year. ""Little Big Bend"" is not a traditional guide to the areas common plants. Although it features many species that are characteristic of the Chihuahuan Desert environment, species such as orchids are also included precisely because they are uncommon or rare and therefore a special thrill to find. Plants not seen in other wildflower guides, or those with a limited geographic range that the reader will less likely encounter elsewhere, are pictured here. This guide describes 109 species found in the United States only in Trans-Pecos Texas; 62 of these occur only in the Big Bend portion of the Trans-Pecos, and 24 of them only within Big Bend National Park. Of the 252 featured species, 71 are considered sensitive plants; in Texas, 28 are classified as critically imperiled, 18 as imperiled, and 25 as vulnerable. The emphasis of this book is on the little in the Big Bend, the overlooked small plants or inconspicuous tiny flowers of larger plants that so often go unnoticed. In a landscape so immense, these plants may be right before our eyes but seldom seen, or they may be tucked away and quite difficult to find. Here, in glowing photographs and insightful text, Roy Morey has brought them to light.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Texas Tech Press,U.S.
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780896726130
- Utgivelsesår
- 2008
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«Designed for people who want to know what they are looking at in the park, this book is superbly done in text and photographs and is easy to understand. Not only does it depict many of the plants within the park, numerous photographs also capture the surrounding countryside and the beauty of the park. This is a must have book for your next trip to the park. --Kevin R. Tipple ""Morey is a photographer whose work has appeared in Texas Parks and Wildlife and Rangefinder magazines."" ""Of the 252 species profiled in this excellent book, 142 are listed as sensitive, vulnerable, imperiled, or critically imperiled. Little Big Bend is also a photography lover's dream book. It includes more than 300 opulent images printed on glossy pages."" --William Scheick (UT of Austin) ***We are missing the end of this review*** ""...the photos are spectacular, and the lighting and contrast are especially well done...Technical data... is kept to a minimum, so the species discussions are informative but not cluttered. The result is an impressive book that carries on the 19th century ""gentleman naturalist"" tradition of scholarship, enthusiasm, beauty, and meticulous accuracy in illustration."" --Nature Book Review, Nov. 3, 2008 ""[Little Big Bend] reflects one man's passion for the plants and desire to share that passion,"" --Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Joann Karges»