Otero Mesa
Preserving America's Wildest Grassland
Gregory McNamee author Stephen Strom illustrator Stephen Capra illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of New Mexico Press
Published:30th Nov '08
Should be back in stock very soon
Full-color images by renowned photographers Stephen Strom and Stephen Capra unite with text by prizewinning nature and geography writer Gregory McNamee to document the subtle landscape of 1.2 million acres of remote Chihuahuan Desert grassland in southern New Mexico. Home to many species of wildlife and native plants, Otero Mesa is a place of extraordinary beauty and ecological significance faced with the increasing threat of oil and gas development that has plagued the Rocky Mountain West.
It is a strange and empty place, a place whose contours suggest that those who do not know it are best to leave it alone, as those who do know it will do in all events. And, as with all strange and empty places in this increasingly crowded, increasingly monocultural world, Otero Mesa is an important island in our geography of hope, a place that warrants concern and protection. Rightly, for it is very much under threat. - Gregory McNamee in Otero Mesa
ISBN: 9780826343970
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 509g
96 pages