By Fred Webster,Marie S. Webster
ISBN-10: 0292744900
ISBN-13: 9780292744905
ISBN-10: 0292791402
ISBN-13: 9780292791404
Hidden excessive within the Sierra de Guatemala mountain diversity of northeastern Mexico within the kingdom of Tamaulipas is the northernmost tropical cloud wooded area of the Western Hemisphere. inside of its humid oak-sweetgum woodlands, tropical and temperate species of vegetation and animals mingle in infrequent variety, making a mecca for birders and different naturalists.
Fred and Marie Webster first visited Rancho del Cielo, cloud wooded area domestic of Canadian immigrant Frank Harrison, in 1964, drawn by way of the chance to work out such unique birds as tinamous, trogons, motmots, and woodcreepers simply 500 miles from their Austin, Texas, domestic. during this booklet, they recount their many adventures as researchers and travel leaders from their base at Rancho del Cielo, interweaving their recollections with a heritage of the zone and of the fight by means of buddies from each side of the border to have a few 360,000 acres of the mountain declared a space protected against exploitation—El Cielo Biosphere Reserve. Their firsthand reporting, enlivened with vibrant stories of the folk, land, and birds of El Cielo, provides an engagingly own bankruptcy to the tale of conservation in Mexico.
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