Wild CA -- Great Basin Bibliography

WILD CALIFORNIA

GREAT BASIN BIBLIOGRAPHY

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WORLD WIDE WEB

Ancient Artists of the Great Basin Desert

http://www.desertusa.com/magdec97/dec_pap/du_artists.html

The greatest concentration of aboriginal rock art in the western hemisphere is located in the Great Basin area. Find out more at this informative web site.

GORP - Inyo National Forest - Birding

http://www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/us_national_forest/ca_inyo.htm

Read more about the Inyo National Forest, and what you can do if you visit, at this informative site.

Great Basin National Park

http://www.great.basin.national-park.com

This page is the official site of Great Basin National Park.

Plants and Animals Featured in the Great Basin exhibit in Wild California Hall

Plants

Buckwheat

http://dlp.CS.Berkeley.EDU/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&rel-namesoup=like&where-namesoup=buckwheat&where-lifeform=any&rel-u_location=like&where-u_location=&rel-continent=eq&where-continent=none&rel-country=eq&where-country=none&rel-state=eq&where-state=none&where-county=none&where-collectn=any&rel-photographer=eq&where-photographer=any&rel-blobs=like&rel-kwid=equals&where-kwid=

Bitterbrush

http://dlp.CS.Berkeley.EDU/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Purshia+tridentata

http://www.usask.ca/agriculture/plantsci/classes/range/purshia.html

Big Sagebrush

http://dlp.CS.Berkeley.EDU/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Artemisia+tridentata

http://www.iastate.edu/~bot356/species/species/a_eSpecie/ArteTrid.html

Utah Juniper

http://dlp.CS.Berkeley.EDU/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Juniperus+osteosperma

http://www.naturesongs.com/vvplants/utahjuniper.html

Rabbitbrush

http://www.lalc.k12.ca.us/target/units/chaparral/verdugo_tour/tour/rabbit_brush.html

http://dlp.CS.Berkeley.EDU/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Chrysothamnus+nauseosus

Birds

Mourning Doves

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/zenaida/z._macroura$narrative.html

http://www.slivoski.com/birding/dove.htm

Prairie Falcon

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i3550id.html

http://www2.ucsc.edu/scpbrg/Student/prairie.htm

http://www.raptor.cvm.umn.edu/content.asp?page=2519

Sage Sparrow

http://www.audubon.org/bird/watch/sag/sag.html

http://www.birdphotography.com/species/sags.html

Western Meadowlark

http://www.birdphotography.com/species/weme.html

http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i5011id.html

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/grasbird/weme/weme.htm

Reptiles

Great Basin Gopher Snake

http://alt.xmission.com/~hoglezoo/reptiles/gphrsnk.htm

http://www.nps.gov/grba/reptile.htm

Mammals

Desert Animals and Wildlife Index

http://www.desertusa.com/animal.html

The Black-Tailed Jackrabbit

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/lepus/l._californicus$narrative.html

http://sevilleta.unm.edu/data/species/mammal/sevilleta/profile/black-tailed-jackrabbit.html

Pronghorn Antelope

http://www.ngpc.state.ne.us/wildlife/antelope.html

http://www.nps.gov/wica/Pronghorn%20Antelope.htm

http://donb.photo.net/malheur/mammals/pronghorn.html

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BOOKS

Cohen, Michael P. A Garden of Bristlecones: Tales of Change in the Great Basin. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1998. Pub QK494.5 .P66 C64 1998.

Einarsen, Arthur Skogman. The Pronghorn Antelope, and its Management. Washington: Wildlife Management Institute, 1948. M&O SK305 .A6 E5 1948.

Fiero, Bill. Geology of the Great Basin. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1986. Main REF QE79.2 .F54 1986.

Hall, Clarence A. (ed.) Natural History of the White-Inyo Range, Eastern California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Pub QH105 .C2 N39 1991.

Hunt, Charles. Death Valley, Geology, Ecology and Archaoeology. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1975. REF Wild California QE90 .D4 H86 1975.

Kitchen, David W. Social Behavior and Ecology of the Pronghorn. Washington: Wildlife society, 1974. Main Serials QL1.W5 no. 38.

Lanner, Ronald M. Trees of the Great Basin: A Natural History. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1984. Main REF & Bot QK484 .G8 L36 1984.

McPhee, John A. Basin and Range. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1981. Pub QE79 .M28 1981.

Medin, Dean E. Birds of a Great Basin Sagebrush Habitat in East – Central Nevada. Ogden, UT: Intermountain Research Station, 1992. Main Serials SD11 .R48 no.452.

Mozingo, Hugh. Shrubs of the Great Basin: A Natural History. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1987. REF Wild California QK141 .M68 1987.

Ryser, Fred. Birds of the Great Basin: A Natural History. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1985. M&O QL683 .G65 R97 1985.

Sigler, William and John Sigler. Fishes of the Great Basin: A Natural History. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989. Main REF & Ichthy QL628 .G73 S54 1987.

Stark, Milt. A Flower-Watcher's Guide to Spring-Blooming Wildflowers of the Antelope Valley. Lancaster, CA: Flowerwatcher Publishing, 1991. Bot QK149.6 .A57 S73 1991.

Taylor, Ronald J. and Rolf W. Valum. Sagebrush Country. Beaverton, OR: Touchstone Press, 1974.. Bot QK133 .T38 1974.

Trimble, Stephen. The Sagebrush Ocean: A Natural History of the Great Basin. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1989. REF Wild California & Main Folio QH104.5 .G68 T75 1989.

Zeveloff, Samuel I. And Farrell R. Collett. Mammals of the Intermountain West. Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 1988. QL719 .W47 Z48 1988.

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CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Alden, Peter. Peterson First Guides to Mammals of North America. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989. Public Juv QL715 .A43 1987.

Cole, Joanna. A Snake's Body. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1981. Pub Juv QL666 .O63 C64 1981.

Parry-Jones. Amazing Birds of Prey. New York: Knopf, 1992. Pub Juv QL696 .F3 P385 1992.

Skramstad, Jill. Wildlife Southwest. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. Pub Juv QL155 .S6 1992.

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