Whether or not the bystanders to this competition recognize its urgency and throw their support to a new relationship with the forests in time will determine the outcome. A naturalist's look at the plant life of Southwestern sand dunes by Janice Emily Bowers University of Arizona Press, 1998. Contrary to public perception, sand dunes are not barren piles of sand. They are alive with plant life. The dunes themselves even move, sometimes several inches a year.
Dunes move grain by grain while the wind whistles around the tenacious flora surviving in the sands.
The book also offers suggested readings, a list of common and scientific names of dunes plants, a selective guide to Southwestern dunes, a general index, and an index of common plant names. Kenya's changing landscape by Raymond M. Turner, H. Awala Ochung', and Jeanne B. Turner University of Arizona Press, 1998. Kenya's changing flora is documented through a series of photographic projects for the same locations in the 1920s by botanist Homer L. Shantz, in the late 1950s by Shantz and B.L. Turner, and in 1992 by this book's editors. Narratives explain the process of change for plant life through each photograph, and a brief discussion at the end of each series brings the process into holistic focus. More often, the impact of humans, grazing animals and land use decisions changed the flora from indigenous to an agricultural or defoliated state.