How Lush My Garden
Lisa K. Harris
The Divide Between Humanities and Science (edited by Richard C. Brusca)
Ethics International Press, 2025. ISBN: 978-1-83711-013-1. 318 pages.
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Outside my Tucson, Arizona, home a Gamble’s quail stands sentry on a granite boulder near an agave patch, the bird’s russet topknot quivering as it swivels its head. Why so on high alert, I wonder. Usually the quail covey scratches for seeds or dust-bathes under the lush canopy of a large velvet mesquite anchoring the garden. But then a light-yellowish fluff ball scurries out from under an agave and darts across the cobblestone path to the mesquite tree. A second ball runs, then a third: hatchlings. They disappear into purple-blossomed verbena, the groundcover grown thick in the shade of the tree’s canopy. A fourth and a fifth join the others. Their barely visible toes shuffle duff and teeny-tiny amber bills poke out among the mesquite’s dried leaf bits. More scamper underneath the tree, twelve babies altogether, with another adult bringing up the rear. Inside, I haven’t poured my first mug of coffee; outside, life unfolds.
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Cumulative Effects in Wildlife Management
CRC Press. ISBN: 9781439809167. 288 pages.
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As humans continue to encroach on wildlands, quality and quantity of wildlife habitat decreases before our eyes. A housing development here, a shopping mall there, a few more trees cut here, another road put in there, each of these diminishes available habitat. Unless the cumulative effects of multiple simultaneous development projects are recognized and incorporated at the beginning of project development, we will continue to see wildlife habitat disappear at unprecedented rates
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Grappling with Cumulative Effects
CRC Press. ISBN: 9781439809167. 288 pages.
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As humans continue to encroach on wildlands, quality and quantity of wildlife habitat decreases before our eyes. A housing development here, a shopping mall there, a few more trees cut here, another road put in there, each of these diminishes available habitat. Unless the cumulative effects of multiple simultaneous development projects are recognized and incorporated at the beginning of project development, we will continue to see wildlife habitat disappear at unprecedented rates
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U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Waivers and Cumulative Effects
CRC Press. ISBN: 9781439809167. 288 pages.
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As humans continue to encroach on wildlands, quality and quantity of wildlife habitat decreases before our eyes. A housing development here, a shopping mall there, a few more trees cut here, another road put in there, each of these diminishes available habitat. Unless the cumulative effects of multiple simultaneous development projects are recognized and incorporated at the beginning of project development, we will continue to see wildlife habitat disappear at unprecedented rates
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Bombing and Sonoran Pronghorn: A clear and present danger?
Sonoran Pronghorn Habitat Use on Landscapes Disturbed by Military Activities
Introduction: Management for the Survival of Sonoran Pronghorn in the United States
Effects of Military Operations on Behavior and Hearing of Endangered Sonoran Pronghorn
Long-term Study of Preserved and Transplanted Saguaros in an Urban Housing and Golf Course Development
Pronghorn Use of Areas with Varying Sound Pressure Levels
Military Jet Activity and Sonoran Pronghorn
Wildlife Use of a Water Catchment in the Southwest
Ecological Characteristics of Riparian Washes in Southeastern Arizona
Vegetative Characteristics of Urban Land Covers in Metropolitan Tucson
Urban Neighbors’ Wildlife Related Attitudes and Behaviors Near Federally Protected Areas in Tucson, Arizona
Harris, L.K., W. W. Shaw, J. Schelhas
Natural Areas Jrnl. 17:144-148 (1997).
Using Long-term Monitoring to Understand How Adjacent Land Development Affects Natural Areas
Natural Areas Jrnl. 16:354-361 (1996).