In this Book
- Border Sanctuary: The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Texas A&M University Press
- Series: Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
summary
The 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. How 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically altered by human habitation is the story M.J. Morgan has uncovered.
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 history of the original “two square leagues” of the Santa Ana land grant and of the Mexican and Tejano families who lived, worked, transformed, and ultimately helped save this forest on the river’s edge.
As border issues continue to present serious challenges for Texas and the nation, it is especially important to be reminded of the deep connection between the region’s human and natural history from the long perspective Morgan provides here.
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 history of the original “two square leagues” of the Santa Ana land grant and of the Mexican and Tejano families who lived, worked, transformed, and ultimately helped save this forest on the river’s edge.
As border issues continue to present serious challenges for Texas and the nation, it is especially important to be reminded of the deep connection between the region’s human and natural history from the long perspective Morgan provides here.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- 1. Saving the Santa Ana Forest
- pp. 13-29
- 5. The World Outside Comes to Santa Ana
- pp. 83-109
- 7. Land Redefined
- pp. 136-158
- Bibliography
- pp. 187-216
Additional Information
ISBN
9781623493240
Related ISBN(s)
9781623493202
MARC Record
OCLC
913915160
Pages
256
Launched on MUSE
2015-07-18
Language
English
Open Access
No