NATURE / Ecology

Disappearing Desert

The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl

by Janine Schipper

Silver Fox of the Rockies

Delphus E. Carpenter and Western Water Compacts

by Daniel Tyler

Foreword by Donald J. Pisani

Big Dams of the New Deal Era

A Confluence of Engineering and Politics

by David P. Billington and Donald C. Jackson

The Size of the Risk

Histories of Multiple Use in the Great Basin

by Leisl Carr-Childers

The Gourd Book

by Charles B. Heiser

Our Better Nature

Environment and the Making of San Francisco

by Philip J. Dreyfus

Murder of a Landscape

The California Farmer-Smelter War, 1897–1916

by Khaled J. Bloom

Going Green

True Tales from Gleaners, Scavengers, and Dumpster Divers

Edited by Laura Pritchett

Amber Waves and Undertow

Peril, Hope, Sweat, and Downright Nonchalance in Dry Wheat Country

by Steve Turner

Between Two Rivers

The Atrisco Land Grant in Albuquerque

by Joseph P. Sanchez

Wind Energy in America

A History

by Robert W. Righter

Legacies of Camelot

Stewart and Lee Udall, American Culture, and the Arts

by L. Boyd Finch

Foreword by Tom Udall

Henry A. Wallace’s Irrigation Frontier

On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer, 1909

by Richard Lowitt and Judith Fabry

Building the Ultimate Dam

John S. Eastwood and the Control of Water in the West

by Donald C. Jackson

The Natural West

Environmental History in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains

by Dan Flores

Man Made Disaster

The Story of St. Francis Dam

by Charles F. Outland