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Richard near Tastiota

on the coast of Sonora, Mexico, with the rare Tiburon barrel cactus (Ferocactus tiburonensis) and senita (Lophocereus schottii

RECENT & FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

AVAILABLE NOW!

THE DESERT EDGE: Flora of the Guaymas–Yaqui Region of Sonora, Mexico

by Richard Stephen Felger, Susan Davis Carnahan, &

José Jesús Sánchez-Escalante

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) Press

—purchase print version or digital-on-demand

click here for open access version

DARK HORSES AND LITTLE TURTLES
and Other Poems from the Anthropocene

by Richard Stephen Felger   
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Reader, beware, something in these poems may leap out at you like a big extinct sharp-toothed cat or a trickster god—both of whom prowl this book—or like your own anger and fear about the state of the world, so many humans now and not enough turtles. Don’t worry. There’s plenty of hope here, too, and sex and sly humor..... Settle in, of course, for a 

green ride on the names of plants, letting them roll deliciously in your mouth, remembering from your own history: screwbean, amaranth, jojoba, chia. 

—comments by Sharman Apt Russell, author and winner of the 2016 John Burroughs Medal 

PLANTS & ANIMALS IN THE YOEME WORLD: Ethnoecology of the Yaquis

of Sonora and Arizona

by Richard Stephen Felger & Felipe Silvestre Molina

Special Publication of the Desert Laboratory,

University of Arizona, Tucson

Forthcoming 2023, est. 550 pp., open access

FIELD GUIDE TO TREES OF THE GILA FOREST REGION, New Mexico
by Richard Stephen Felger, James Thomas Verrier,

Kelly Kindscher, & Xavier Raj Herbst Khera

March 2021, University of New Mexico Press, 328 pp.

SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL ARTICLE — Controls of plant diversity and composition on a desert archipelago.

Wilder, B.T, R.S. Felger, & E. Ezcurra. 2019.

https://peerj.com/articles/7286/

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Remembering Richard Felger:
A Celebration of His Life and Legacy: Pax et Prosopis 
(Peace and Mesquite)  
(Click here for videos and more.)

UPCOMING EVENT: 7th Annual Autumn Abundance Festival — Mesquite Milling & Wild and Local Foods Potluck, Saturday, November 12, 2023, at The Commons in Silver City NM  contact Asher Gelbart for more info, agelbart@gmail.com

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AVAILABLE NOW!

THE DESERT EDGE: Flora of the Guaymas–Yaqui Region of Sonora, Mexico

by Richard Stephen Felger, Susan Davis Carnahan, & José Jesús Sánchez-Escalante

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) Press

purchase print version or digital-on-demand version

click here for open access version

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