And Then There Were None: The Demise of Desert Bighorn Sheep in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness

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Once plentiful within the mountains of southern Arizona, by the 1990s desert bighorn sheep were wiped out within the Pusch Ridge Wilderness of the Santa Catalina Mountains because of habitat loss and alteration. This book uses their history and population decline as a case take a look at in human alteration of flora and fauna habitat. When human encroachment had driven the herd to extinction, flora and fauna managers launched a big and controversial effort to reestablish this population.

For more than forty years Paul R. Krausman directed studies of the Pusch Wilderness population of those iconic animals, situated within the mountainous outskirts of Tucson. The tale he tells here unearths the complex relationships between politics and biology in flora and fauna conservation. His account of the evolution of flora and fauna conservation practices includes discussions of ways and of human attitudes toward predators, fire, and their management.

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