LEADER 04293nam 2200697 450 001 9910819628703321 005 20230807221053.0 010 $a1-62349-324-2 035 $a(CKB)3710000000445863 035 $a(EBL)2089499 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001516734 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12634992 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001516734 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11494862 035 $a(PQKB)10119137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2089499 035 $a(OCoLC)913915160 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse46258 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2089499 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11076386 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL811330 035 $a(OCoLC)914149964 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000445863 100 $a20150725h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBorder sanctuary $ethe conservation legacy of the Santa Ana land grant /$fM. J. Morgan 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCollege Station, [Texas] :$cTexas A&M University Press,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (242 p.) 225 1 $aKathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-62349-320-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aThe land of Santa Ana: solving mysteries -- Saving the Santa Ana forest -- South Texas in the 1930's -- 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. 330 $aThe Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge lies on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, about seventy miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. In Border Sanctuary, M.J. Morgan uncovers how 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically altered by human habitation. The story she tells begins and ends with the efforts of the Rio Grande Nature Club to protect one of the last remaining stopovers for birds migrating north from Central and South America. In between, she reconstructs a hundred-year human and environmental history... 410 0$aKathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University 606 $aWildlife refuges$zTexas$zSanta Ana National Wildlife Refuge$xHistory 606 $aWildlife refuges$zTexas$zLower Rio Grande Valley$xHistory 606 $aWildlife management$zTexas$zSanta Ana National Wildlife Refuge$xHistory 606 $aForest conservation$zTexas |z$zSanta Ana National Wildlife Refuge$xHistory 606 $aForest conservation$zTexas$zLower Rio Grande Valley$xHistory 607 $aSanta Ana National Wildlife Refuge (Tex.)$xHistory 615 0$aWildlife refuges$xHistory. 615 0$aWildlife refuges$xHistory. 615 0$aWildlife management$xHistory. 615 0$aForest conservation$xHistory. 615 0$aForest conservation$xHistory. 676 $a639.9097644 700 $aMorgan$b M. J.$f1955-$01623116 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910819628703321 996 $aBorder sanctuary$93988483 997 $aUNINA