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In concise, readable prose, From Grassland to Glacier guides the nature lover through the natural world of the Southern Rocky Mountainsfrom the hot, dry plains and plateaus, through the moist forests of pine and spruce, to the windswept tundra above the trees. Self-guided tours and easy-to-use keys simplify the identification of natural communities through personal experience. The standard work in the field for years, From Grassland to Glacier has been completely revised to take advantage of scientific advances. It includes an entirely new section on the wetlands ecosystem and has been expanded to include portions of the Southern Rockies in the surrounding states of Utah, New Mexico, and Wyoming.
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From Grassland to Glacier : The Natural History of Colorado and the Surrounding Region
author
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Mutel, Cornelia Fleischer.; Emerick, John C.
publisher
:
Johnson Books
isbn10 | asin
:
1555660894
print isbn13
:
9781555660895
ebook isbn13
:
9780585024974
language
:
English
subject
Natural history--Colorado, Ecology--Colorado.
publication date
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1992
lcc
:
QH105.C6M86 1992eb
ddc
:
574.5/264/09788
subject
:
Natural history--Colorado, Ecology--Colorado.
From Grassland to Glacier
The Natural History of Colorado and the Surrounding Region
CORNELIA FLEISCHER MUTEL AND JOHN C. EMERICK
Johnson Books: Boulder
Page ii
1984, 1992 by Cornelia Fleischer Mutel and John C. Emerick
Cover design: Robert Schram
Second Edition
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
ISBN 1-55566-089-4 LCCCN 84-80539
Printed in the United States of America by Johnson Printing 1880 South 57th Court Boulder, Colorado 80301
Page iii
Contents
Foreword
v
Preface to the First Edition
ix
Preface to the Second Edition
xii
1. Colorado's Environment
1
2. Plains Grasslands
27
3. Mountain Grasslands and Meadows
45
4. Lowland Riparian Ecosystems
59
5. Mountain Riparian Ecosystems
71
6. Shrublands
87
7. Pion Pine-Juniper Woodlands
107
8. Ponderosa Pine Forests
119
9. Douglas Fir Forests
133
10. Aspen Groves
141
11. Lodgepole Pine Forests
153
12. Limber Pine and Bristlecone Pine Woodlands
161
13. Engelmann Spruce-Subalpine Fir Forests
169
14. The Forest-Tundra Transition
181
15. Alpine Tundra
189
16. Aquatic Ecosystems
205
Epilogue
227
Self-Guided Tours to Regional Ecosystems
229
Key to Common Native Tree Species
267
Glossary
275
Suggested Reading List
279
Index
287
Page iv
Dedicated to wild lands and to future generations of people who will treasure the beauty and serenity of such places as we do.
Page v
Foreword
The Natural History of Coloradowhatdoes it mean? Why is it important? How to justify this book? For a start, natural history is history in an old-time sense, not history as chronology but history as stories, in this case natural stories, the stories of nature mostly and not stories about people and their artifacts.
Natural history has a history; at the present time, it is maturing to become ecology. Ecology isin the apt if expansive phrase of one of the greatest of ecologists, G. E. Hutchinsonthe study of the Universe. Natural history gave to ecology its starting point, the notion that everything is connected to everything else. Earth and Life are connected in a mutual dynamic powered by the sun, a dynamic of which we humans are an increasingly influential part. This is a book about dynamic connections. That alone would make it important.
Connections define Colorado. The very name, Colorado, evokes contrast, diversity, pattern. The connections cannot be known in a lifetime. They cannot be expressed in the mere two dimensions of print. Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once observed that "art is the imposing of a pattern on experience." So is science. But there is more to understand of the natural history of Colorado than poet and scientist together can tell. This book is an invitation, but it cannot convey all there is to know. Only experience can teach the best of Colorado.
The Rocky Mountains are the ruling motif in Colorado, the dominating presence, the driving force. Mountains are central to the state's diversity. Visitors and residents alike are drawn almost instinctively to the mountains. Mountains are fundamental to local ecology. They allow a diversity of landscapes greater than any other inland state. The mighty ridge of the Rockies is highest here and stands farthest east. Here it rises most abruptly from plains and canyons and plateaus. High relief dictates a wide range of physical conditions which provide a wide range of opportunity. Colorado is built of recycled mountains. The eastern plains are bits of mountain worn by the ages and integrated by life into ecosystems. The western valleys are carved by mountain water through sediments derived from generations of Rocky Mountains long past.
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