Alamosa Public Library

Here is a first-hand, information-packed description of the natural wonders, animal life and plant life of the fifteen major natural areas of the West. It is also an expert explanation of how these areas came to be geologically what they are.

Bowden takes us on a wild journey through his past and across the gritty American and Mexican West, ranting all the way about our poisoned earth and corrupted society. Bowden's "blood orchids" are evil, malignant blossoms that feed on nuclear waste and the horrors of war, massacre, torture, and prejudice. We have a compulsion for "killing the thing we love," Bowden claims, an urge responsible, in part, for the severe damage we've done to the environment....

"A retired National Park Service employee details his life working within the national parks; including photographs of landscapes and wildlife within multiple parks"--Provided by publisher.

"In recent years, Los Angeles Times writer and editor Frank Clifford has journeyed along the Continental Divide, the hemispheric watershed that spans North America from the alkali badlands of southernmost New Mexico to the roof of the Rockies in Montana and into Canada. The result is The Backbone of the World, an exploration of America's longest wilderness corridor, a harsh and unforgiving region inhabited by men and women whose way of life is as...

Botkin uses the experiences of Lewis and Clark to challenge the myth of a pristine natural past.