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Border sanctuary : the conservation legacy of the Santa Ana land grant /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Morgan, M. J., 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2015].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Conservation leadership series.
Subjects:
Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge (Tex.) > History.
Wildlife refuges > Texas > Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge > History.
Wildlife refuges > Texas > Lower Rio Grande Valley > History.
Wildlife management > Texas > Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge > History.
Forest conservation > Texas > Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge > History.
Forest conservation > Texas > Lower Rio Grande Valley > History.
Table of Contents:
  • The land of Santa Ana: solving mysteries
  • Saving the Santa Ana forest
  • South Texas in the 1930s
  • 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.