Precious Heritage
Subtitle: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States
Contributors: Bruce A. Stein (Editor); Lynn S. Kutner (Editor); Jonathan S. Adams (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 21, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780195125191
First sentence: Unusually heavy rains in the winter of 1969 transformed California's normally dry Owens Valley, causing an explosion of grasses and reeds along the edge of the Owens River.