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  title info:
    title: Perdido
    sub title: Sierra San Luis
  name:
    name part: Berman, Michael P.
    name part: 1956-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: DeChristopher, Tim
    name part: 1981-
    role:
      role term: writer of foreword.
  name:
    name part: Clark, Valer
    role:
      role term: writer of afterword.
  name:
    name part: Sierra Corona, Rodrigo
    role:
      role term: writer of added text.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Illustrated works.
  genre: Pictorial works.
  genre: Photographs.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nmu
    date issued: 2019
    copyright date: 2019
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 194 pages : photographs ; 28 cm
  abstract: "The remarkable Sierra San Luis forms the nexus of the Sierra Madres and the Rocky Mountains. The range runs north-south in the shape of a sleeping lizard. The high narrow pyramid of a head, Animas Peak, rests in the bootheel of New Mexico, and with a thin neck draped across the border the slumbering body curls into the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. Along the spine is a high ridge covered with sparse patches of six kinds of pine trees. The slope on the east side descends into the Chihuahuan Desert, a landscape of small mountains spotted with scrub oaks, sotol, and junipers that float in a sea of dry, yellow grasslands. To the west, on the horizon, sharp mountains and hard country fall off into the Sonoran Desert. This book brings attention to the Sierra San Luis at a seminal point in time. Michael P. Berman traveled extensively to El Valle ranch to study the unique Mexican borderlands occupied by ranchers, wildlife, and narcos. His documentation-photographs and words-explores the meaning of the beautiful and rugged landscape and provides a poetic understanding of how one learns to see the land. As Berman notes, the ecological systems on the planet are failing, yet in the Sierra San Luis the collapse has reversed itself-water, soil, and ecological diversity are all increasing in quantity and improving in quality. Why here and nowhere else? Adding to Berman's photography and commentary, the book includes an essay by Rodrigo Sierra Corona, a biologist and ecologist who created one of the first biosphere reserves in Mexico along the US-Mexico border. He draws from his work to discuss the evolution of his vision and how a private reserve fits into the difficult task of land conservation in Mexico. In his evocative foreword, climate activist Tim DeChristopher remarks upon the "humbling reality of the mountains" and urges the importance of fighting to protect the earth. El Valle rancher and conservationist Valer Clark contributes the afterword"--
  note: Michael P. Berman ; foreword by Tim DeChristopher ; essay by Rodrigo Sierra Corona ; afterword by Valer Clark.
  subject:
    topic: Landscape photography
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
    genre: Pictorial works
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
    geographic: Mexican-American Border Region
  subject:
    topic: Landscape photography
  classification: TR660.5 .B374386 2019
  classification: 577.09721
  identifier: 9780890136485
  identifier: 0890136483
  identifier: W019339
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: CDX
    record creation date: 191211
    record change date: 20250318223413.0
    record identifier: in00004124909
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng