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Relicts of a Beautiful Sea - Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World (Hardcover)
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Relicts of a Beautiful Sea - Survival, Extinction, and Conservation in a Desert World (Hardcover)
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Along a tiny spring in a narrow canyon near Death Valley, seemingly
against all odds, an Inyo Mountain slender salamander makes its
home. "The desert," writes conservation biologist Christopher
Norment, "is defined by the absence of water, and yet in the desert
there is water enough, if you live properly." Relicts of a
Beautiful Sea explores the existence of rare, unexpected, and
sublime desert creatures such as the black toad and four pupfishes
unique to the desert West. All are anomalies: amphibians and fish,
dependent upon aquatic habitats, yet living in one of the driest
places on earth, where precipitation averages less than four inches
per year. In this climate of extremes, beset by conflicts over
water rights, each species illustrates the work of natural
selection and the importance of conservation. This is also a story
of persistence - for as much as ten million years - amid the
changing landscape of western North America. By telling the story
of these creatures, Norment illustrates the beauty of evolution and
explores ethical and practical issues of conservation: what is a
four-inch-long salamander worth, hidden away in the heat-blasted
canyons of the Inyo Mountains, and what would the cost of its
extinction be? What is any lonely and besieged species worth, and
why should we care?
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