1 Notes 2/4 – First midterm: Tuesday 2/15/10 • Less than 2 weeks from Today Tree-Ring Dating Activity: Due Today ---returned on Tuesday • BOOKS O’ DAY-- today Forest Shreve Joseph Krutch Ed Abbey Southwest Desert • What is a desert? • World deserts and why • North American Deserts • Sonoran Desert – Plant life form diversity – Ethnobotany • Van Dyke (1901): “Deserts … are the breathing spaces of the West and should be preserved forever.” • http://web.bio.ed.ac.uk/research/groups/ jdeacon/desbiome/
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Notes 2/4
– First midterm: Tuesday 2/15/10
• Less than 2 weeks from Today
Tree-Ring Dating Activity: Due Today
---returned on Tuesday
• BOOKS O’ DAY-- today
Forest Shreve Joseph Krutch Ed Abbey
Southwest Desert
• What is a desert?
• World deserts and why
• North American Deserts
• Sonoran Desert
– Plant life form diversity
– Ethnobotany
• Van Dyke (1901): “Deserts … are the breathing spaces of the West and should be preserved forever.”