Publisher's Synopsis
Addresses the integration of science and resource management issues in the Colorado Plateau, a sparsely vegetated region of plateaus, mesas, canyons, arches, and cliffs in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. The chapters range in content, addressing conservation issues-past, present, and future-on the Colorado Plateau, measurement of human impacts on resources, grazing and wildland-urban interfaces, and tools and methods for monitoring habitats and species.
