Arizona Wildlife Views Magazine

In every issue of Arizona Wildlife Views, we review one or two books our readers might find interesting. Our reviewer, David E. Brown, retired as chief of the Game Branch of the Arizona Game and Fish Department and now teaches at Arizona State University. We usually select books about wildlife, habitat, conservation and management, focusing on Arizona and the Southwest. Some recent reviews:

• "When the Rains Come: A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert"
• "Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest: Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota"
• "Hunting the American West: The Pursuit of Big Game for Life, Profit, and Sport, 1800–1900"
• "Arizona Wildlife: The Territorial Years 1863–1912"
• "Sonoran Desert Life" and "Natural Environments of Arizona"
• "Enjoying Hummingbirds in the Wild & in Your Yard"
• "Ambushed Along the Jaguar Trail"
• "Jim Burns' Arizona Birds"
• “Fish of Arizona Field Guide” and “Wildflowers of Arizona Field Guide”
• “The Great Cacti”
• “Hip, Hip, Hooray, It’s Monsoon Day! (Ajua, Ya Llego El Chubasco!)” This book won the "One Book Arizona for Kids" 2009 contest, which means it will be promoted for reading and discussion throughout the state all year.
• "Hunt Arizona 2008"
• “Arizona’s Pronghorn Antelope” (review by guest reviewer Tom Britt)
• “The Black & Brown Faces in America’s Wild Places”
• “The Ribbon of Green: Change in Riparian Vegetation in the Southwestern United States”
• “Bobcat: Master of Survival”
• “Tread Lightly: Venomous and Poisonous Animals of the Southwest”

All books reviewed in this column are available at local bookstores, through online booksellers and from the publisher.

Note to authors and publishers: To have your book considered for review, please send an e-mail to awv@azgfd.gov with the words “book review” in the subject line.

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