Field Guide To The Sandia Mountains
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Book Description
Each year over 2 million visitors to New Mexico's Sandia Mountains enjoy more than 100 miles of trails, hiking, climbing, running, biking, skiing, and birding, as well as viewing the mountains from hang gliders and hot air balloons. This guide will assist visitors in discovering the diverse natural features of the Sandias. Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains includes sections on ecology, including weather and fire, geology, flora (grasses, flowers, trees) and fauna (arthropods, reptiles and amphibians, birds, mammals), and recreational opportunities. Plant keys and fauna checklists add to the book's features.
Rather than a comprehensive field guide, the selections offer the most commonly encountered species in each category, presenting information on just over 100 species of flowers, for example, among almost 500 species that can be found in the mountains.
A labor of love conceived by the Sandia Ranger District and the New Mexico Friends of the Forest (now known as Friends of the Sandia Mountains), this book is a resource no visitor to the Sandias should be without.
About the Author
Robert Julyan is the author of several place name books and chair of the Geographic Names Committee of the New Mexico Geographic Information Council. Mary Stuever is a forester and ecologist with a passion for sharing the outdoors with others. Co-author of the Philmont Fieldguide, which inspired this project, Stuever provided initial direction and guidance.
Field Guide To The Sandia Mountains,Robert Julyan,Mary Stuever,University of New Mexico Press,0826336671,Ecology,Mountains,Natural history,Nature,Nature / Field Guide Books,Nature/Ecology,New Mexico,Reference,Sandia Mountains,Sandia Mountains (N.M.),United States - West - Mountain (General),NATURAL HISTORY, COUNTRY LIFE & PETS
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