Border sanctuary : the conservation legacy of the Santa Ana land grant / M. J. Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, M. J., 1955- author.

Series:

Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wildlife refuges--Texas--Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge--History.

Wildlife refuges.

Wildlife refuges--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley--History.

Wildlife management--Texas--Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge--History.

Wildlife management.

Forest conservation--Texas |z--Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge--History.

Forest conservation.

Forest conservation--Texas--Lower Rio Grande Valley--History.

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge (Tex.)--History.

Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge (Tex.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station, [Texas] : Texas A&M University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge lies on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, about seventy miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. In Border Sanctuary, M.J. Morgan uncovers how 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically altered by human habitation. The story she tells begins and ends with the efforts of the Rio Grande Nature Club to protect one of the last remaining stopovers for birds migrating north from Central and South America. In between, she reconstructs a hundred-year human and environmental history...

Contents:

The land of Santa Ana: solving mysteries

Saving the Santa Ana forest

South Texas in the 1930's

The symbolic Chachalaca

Perceptions of the forest

The original landscape of Santa Ana

Environments

Lessons of Dicliptera

Hunter of flowing habitats: the jaguarundi

First changers: hunters, grazers, and browsers

New eco-travelers: the lure of resilient grasslands

Into the forests

The early Leal years: people of the river

The Leals and their neighbors: families of the Mexican grants

The trees of Santa Ana

A house of handmade bricks

Mounted raiders in South Texas

The world outside comes to Santa Ana

Hard for people, good for trees

Horses on Santa Ana

Jaguars and horses

Losing and gaining Santa Ana

The Leal fortunes

Fire, water, and goats on Santa Ana: the Guzman dream

The traveling armadillo

The way of fire

The eating of the grass: clues in the twentieth century

Santa Ana in 1880

The dream of la Pechuga

Land redefined

Surveys, sales, and rails

Santa Ana in the Great Depression years

Epilogue: the future of a river and its trees.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62349-324-2

OCLC:

913915160