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Articles 1 - 6 of 6
Full-Text Articles in Desert Ecology
Mesa Verde Vegetal Survey, Stanley L. Welsh
Mesa Verde Vegetal Survey, Stanley L. Welsh
Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Abstract
This write-up is mainly concerned with plant specimens recovered and examined from major prehistoric cliff dwellings being excavated during the Wetherill Mesa Project. It also includes anecdotes from the author’s experiences in Mesa Verde. An overall summary of the species identified is presented at the end of this work, including suggestions as to how plants may have been used based on modern Native American surveys.
Table of Contents
Preface
Prologue
Introduction
Wetherill Mesa
Climate
Collections
Identification
Modern Plant Assemblage
Contemporary Species Compliment
Archeological Plant Assemblage
Plant Species Recovering from the Major Ruins
Kinds of Plant Materials Recovered
Wood-worked Items …
Botanists In The Canyonlands Of The Colorado Plateau – 1950–1983 & Prior, Stanley L. Welsh, Glen Moore
Botanists In The Canyonlands Of The Colorado Plateau – 1950–1983 & Prior, Stanley L. Welsh, Glen Moore
Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of botanical investigations in southeastern Utah, but is not so-restricted geographically. It grew out of the discovery of decades-old manuscripts on the flora of what became Canyonlands National Park in 1964, but from those typescript copies the coverage grew outward geographically and backward in time to the earliest inhabitants of what is today known as the Four Corners Region of the American Southwest. Reviewed is the account of utilization of the region and its natural resources by aboriginal inhabitants who were familiar with all of it. That early, and to an extent, continuous occupation …
Hanging Gardens Of The Colorado: Jewels In The Crown—Canyonlands Versus Zion Canyon, Stanley L. Welsh
Hanging Gardens Of The Colorado: Jewels In The Crown—Canyonlands Versus Zion Canyon, Stanley L. Welsh
Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Abstract
Descriptions and types of Utah’s hanging gardens. This work includes a comparison of hanging gardens in Canyonlands versus Zion Canyon, as well as the plant and animal assemblages found there. Five types of gardens and alcoves are defined and the different types found in both national parks are described. Maps of hanging garden locations and extensive photographs of the flora and fauna are provided.
Table of Contents (abridged)
Prolog
Canyonlands Gardens
Geomorphology
Types of Gardens and Alcoves
Zion Canyon Gardens
Terrace-type Gardens
Plant Communities
Stream Courses
Geographic Affinities of Hanging Gardens
Restricted or Unusual Plants
Plant Succession
Appendix I: …
Mohave Desert—An Overview And Byu's Lytle Preserve, Stanley L. Welsh, Larry St. Clair
Mohave Desert—An Overview And Byu's Lytle Preserve, Stanley L. Welsh, Larry St. Clair
Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Mohahve or Mohave (Mojave) gets its Explorer and its Name (sort of?)
The Frémont Odyssey through the Mohahve
What of the Crossing of the Mohahve?
References
BYU's Lytle Preserve
Acknowledgments
Botanist In Death Valley, Stanley L. Welsh
Botanist In Death Valley, Stanley L. Welsh
Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
Abstract
This book details the author’s trips to Death Valley, along with general ecological information about the region. Explorations by other natural historians are also recounted. Death Valley and its surrounding mountain ranges are stark and appear to lack vegetative cover, but that appearance is deceiving. The ranges and valley support a great diversity of living things, both plants and animals. Pages 10–17 contain photographs of various landscapes. Pages 18–20 list the plant species collected in Death Valley, 1970–1983. Voucher specimens are available for study at Stanley L. Welsh Herbarium, Brigham Young University.
Water In Beaver Dam Wash And Lytle Preserve, Stanley L. Welsh
Water In Beaver Dam Wash And Lytle Preserve, Stanley L. Welsh
Books by Faculty of the Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum
This short work is derived from a manuscript prepared for presentation in a water adjudication hearing, following a proposal to pipe water from wells in Beaver Dam Wash for transfer across state lines to be used for culinary and other purposes in Mesquite, Nevada. The Wash is estimated to yield 2000 acre feet of water annually, mostly as subsurface flow, at the Arizona line. About a third of that amount is already appropriated by users along the Wash in Utah, but there are applications pending for more than 100,000 acre feet in Utah. Thus, the Wash is already oversubscribed by …