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Creatures Of Habitat: The Changing Nature of Wildlife and Wild Places in Utah and the Intermountain West

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From flying squirrels on high wooded plateaus to hanging gardens in redrock canyons, the Intermountain West is home to one of the most world’s rarest and most fascinating animals and plants. Creatures of Habitat details many unique but little-known talents of this region’s abnormal and wonderful wild inhabitants and descibes their connections with native environments. For instance, readers will learn concerning the pronghorn antelope’s supercharged cardiovascular system, a brine shrimp-powered shorebird that every year flies nonstop from the Great Salt Lake to Central Argentina, and a rare mustard plant recently found out on Mount Ogden. Emphasizing how increasing loss and degradation of habitat hinders native species’ survival, Mark Gerard Hengesbaugh discusses what is occurring to natural world and wild places and what’s being done about it.

Well illustrated, this book has habitat maps, pen-and-ink illustrations, and fifty photos of natural world and wild places selected by photo editor Dan Miller. Also included are guides to natural world viewing and lists of Utah species, including those regarded as sensitive, threatened, or endangered.


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