Sciences --- Environment and Ecology
For students and faculty in the SMU-in-Taos program, this list of resources in the Fort Library provides a starting point for research in the general subject areas listed above. The list includes a mix of scientific studies and essays by writers especially concerned about the environment. Use PONI to determine the call numbers for these titles and to find other books on your topic.
See also the Library Guides
in this series on
New Mexico and the Atomic Age
| Sciences: Geology
and Paleontology
Categories within this
Reference | New
Mexico & West | General
| Forests & National Parks
Library Guide:
Mining | Water
| Wildlife |
Journal Articles
Facts on File Dictionary of Environmental
Science (1991)
Hammond’s Nature Atlas (1952)
Introduction to Global Environmental Issues
(1994,
1997)
New
Mexico, the West
see
also section on Water, below
Abbey’s Road (Edward
Abbey)
The Angry West: A Vulnerable Land and
its Future (1982)
Black Mesa: The Angel of Death (nuclear
testing in Nevada)
Cadillac Desert: The American West and
its Disappearing Water (1993, 1986)
Climate of New Mexico (1973)
Contemporary Ecology of Arroyo Hondo,
New Mexico
Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
(Abbey)
Development on a Human Scale: Potentials
for Ecologically Guided Growth
in Northern New Mexico
(1972)
Dividing New Mexico’s Waters, 1700-1912
Ecocide of Native America: Environmental
Destruction of Indian Lands
and Peoples (1995)
Final Environmental Impact Statement for
Riparian and Aquatic Habitat Management
in the Taos Field Office
[of
the Bureau of Land Management] (2000)
Epitaph for a Desert Anarchist(biog.
of Edward Abbey)
Every Part of this Land is Sacred: Native
American Voices in Praise of Nature
Final Environmental Statement for a Proposed
Timber Management
Plan, Carson National
Forest (1974)
Great American Deserts
If Mountains Die: a New Mexico Memoir
(John
Nichols)
If You Poison Us: Uranium and Native Americans
(1994)
New Mexico Environmental Law Handbook
(1991)
On the Mesa (John
Nichols)
Plutonium and the Rio Grande: Environmental
Change and Contamination
in the Nuclear Age
(1994)
Reopening the Western Frontier (from
High
Country News, 1988, on economic and
environmental issues in the West)
Rio Grande Corridor Proposed Plan
and Final EIS [environmental impact study] (August 1998,
2 v.)
agebrush Country (1975)
[A] Sense of the
American West: An Anthology of Environmental History
(Sherow,
1998)
Sky’s the Limit: A Defense of the Earth
(John
Nichols)
Special Biotic Relationships in the Arid
Southwest (1989)
Taos Ski Valley: Draft Environmental Statement
(1974)
To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law,
and Public Policy, 1848-1902
Way of the Earth: Native America and the
Environment
Waste of the West: Public Lands Ranching
(1991)
Western National Wildlife Refuges (1996)
Breathing Planet (1986)
Cosmos, Earth, and Man: A Short History
of the Universe (Cloud, 1978)
Deserts as Dumps: The Disposal of Hazardous
Materials in Arid Ecosystems (1992)
Ecology and Human Adaptation (1975)
Estimated Use of Water in the U.S. in
1990
Fifty Simple Things You Can Do to Save
the Earth (1989)
Fluorocarbons and the Environment (U.S.government
report, 1975)
Human Impact on Ancient Environments (1999)
Man and Resources in the Middle Rio Grande
Valley (1943)
Nature's Economy: A History of Ecological
Ideas (Worster, 2nd ed., 1994)
New Course for the Colorado River: Major
Issues for the Next Century (1986)
Next Step: 50 More Things You Can Do to
Save the Earth (1991)
North American Indian Ecology (1996)
Plant Ecology of an Arid Basin (1969)
Primer of Ecological Principles (1976)
Protestantism, Capitalism and Nature in
America (1997)
Teachings from the American Earth: Indian
Religion and Philosophy (1975)
Technology and Environment (National
Academy of Engineering, 1989)
Way of the Earth (1994)
Wilderness U.S.A. (1975)
Aldo Leopold: the Man and His Legacy
Aldo Leopold’s Southwest
Battling for the National Parks
(1988)
Celebrate National Forests, 1891-1991
The Early Days. v.1 & 2 (of
3-vol. set on history of Southwestern forest service; 1989-1992)
Indian Country, God's Country: Native
Americans and the National ParksI
slands under Siege: National Parks and
the Politics of External Threats (1991)
Landscape Character Types of the National
Forests in Arizona and New
Mexico (1989)
National Parks (Tilden,
1968)
National Parks and the Women’s Voice:
A History (1996)
The National Forest Management Proposals
(1976)
Playing God in Yellowstone (1987)
Ponderosa Fire Management (1973)
Public Lands, Public Heritage: The National
Forest Idea (1991)
Regreening the National Parks (1992)
Timeless Heritage: A History of the Forest
Service in the Southwest (1988)
Wilderness and Primitive Areas in Southwestern
National Forests (1995)
"Mining and the Environment: The Clean Air
Issue in New Mexico, 1960-1980,"
New Mexico Historical
Review, 69:4 (October 1994)
See also: section on Mining
in guide on New Mexico History
Acequia Culture: Water, Land and Community
in the Southwest
[Las] Acequias del
Norte (2 v.)
American Indian Water Rights and the Limits
of Law
Cadillac Desert: The American West and
its Disappearing Water (1993, 1986)
Crossing the Next Meridian: Land, Water
and the Future of the West (1992)
Dividing New Mexico’s Waters, 1700-1912
"Fantastical Assumptions": A Centennial Overview
of Water Use in New Mexico,"
(Norton), New Mexico
Historical Review,
73:4 (October 1998)
Forging New Rights in Western Waters (1983)
Groundwater Management in the West (Ashley
and Smith, 1999)
Groundwater Policy in the Southwest (1985)
Killing the Hidden Waters: The Slow Destruction
of Water Resources in the
American Southwest
(1977)
"Land and Water Rights in New Spain," (Taylor,
William B.), New Mexico
Historical Review,
50:3
(July 1975)
Land, Water and Culture: New Perspectives
on Hispanic Land Grants (1987)
Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in
Northern New Mexico (1988)
New Courses for the Colorado: Major Issues
for the Next Century (1986)
Reclamation of Disturbed Arid Lands (1978)
Rio Chama Management Plan (1990)
Rio Grande Corridor Proposed Plan and
Final EIS [environmental impact
study](August
1998, 2 v.)
Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and
the Growth of the American West (Worster, 1992)
Rules and Regulations Governing Drilling
of Wells and Appropriation of Ground Water
in New Mexico (1966)
To Reclaim a Divided West: Water, Law
and Public Policy, 1848-1902 (Pisani, 1992)
Salt Dreams: Land and Water in Low-down
California (DeBuys, 1999)
"The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo as a Living
Document: Water and
Land Use Issues in Northern
New Mexico," (Meyer and Brescia), New
Mexico Historical Review,
73:4
(October 1998)
"The United States Army Corps of Engineers
in the Middle Rio Grande Valley,
1935-1955 (Welsh,
Michael), New Mexico Historical Review, 60:3 (July 1985)
Water in the Hispanic Southwest (1984)
Water Politics: Continuity and Change
(1990)
Water Quality in the Rio Grande Valley,
Colorado, New Mexico,
and Texas, 1992-1995
Water Resources of Taos County, New Mexico
(USGS,
1993)
WWW site: Water
Resources of the United States
WWW site: Water
Resources Division -- New Mexico District
"Bats: Maligned Creatures of the Night Finally
Get Their Just Due,"
New Mexico
Magazine, 77:9
(September 1999)
"El Lobo's Return," New Mexico Magazine,
77:1 (January 1999)
Predator Damage in the West: A Study of
Coyote Management Alternatives (1978)
Vanishing Lobo: The Mexican Wolf and the
Southwest (1990)
World of the Coyote (Sierra
Club, 1995)
Other
"Camels May Turn Desert Back into Oasis,"
New
Mexico Magazine, 67:3
(March 1989)
"Aldo Leopold: Father of America's Wilderness,"
New
Mexico Magazine,
77:4 (April 1999)
"The Land Makes the Man: New Mexico's Influence
on the Conservationist
Aldo Leopold," New
Mexico Historical Review, 73:3 (July 1998)
"Mary Austin and the Western Conservation
Movement: 1900-1927," Journal
of the Southwest,
30:1 (Spring 1988)