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PHOTO:

Richard near Tastiota

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

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

PLANTS & ANIMALS

IN THE YOEME WORLD: Ethnoecology of the Yaquis

in Sonora and Arizona

by Richard Stephen Felger

& Felipe Silvestre Molina

Foreword by Exequiel Ezcurra

Desert Institute Press, 2024

—PURCHASE at Amazon (click here)

or Barnes & Noble (click here)

or click here to download OPEN ACCESS VERSION (PDF)

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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 to download Open Access PDF

Field Guide to the 

TREES OF THE GILA REGION

OF NEW MEXICO


by Richard Stephen Felger,

James Thomas Verrier, Kelly Kindscher, & Xavier Raj Herbst Khera

click here to purchase from

University of New Mexico Press

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DARK HORSES AND
LITTLE TURTLES and Other Poems from the Anthropocene

by Richard Stephen Felger   

to purchase, click here

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: 8th Annual Autumn Abundance Festival

— Mesquite Milling & Wild and Local Foods Potluck, Silver City NM  

contact Asher Gelbart for more info, agelbart@gmail.com

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NOW AVAILABLE!

PLANTS AND ANIMALS IN THE YOEME WORLD: Ethnoecology of the Yaquis in Sonora and Arizona

by Richard Stephen Felger & Felipe Silvestre Molina, foreword by Exequiel Ezcurra

published by Desert Institute Press, 2024 

purchase hardcover at Amazon (click here) or at Barnes & Noble (click here)

or click here to download Open Access Version (PDF) 

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