Gary Nabhan papers1978-1995 (bulk 1969-2008)

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Gary Nabhan papers1978-1995 (bulk 1969-2008)

MS 337


Collection Summary
Creator:	Nabhan, Gary Paul
Creator:	Native Seeds/Search (Organization)
Collection Name	Gary Nabhan papers
Inclusive Dates:	1978-1995
Bulk Dates:	(bulk 1969-2008)
Physical Description	9 Linear feet
Abstract	Papers, 1969-2008 of Gary Paul Nabhan, ethnobotanist, plant ecologist, and author. Contains journals, scholarly and popular published works, production materials relating to his monographs, and transparency slides from his research and public lectures. The contents of this collection focus on the Sonoran Desert bioregion and aridlands agriculture and ethnobotany more generally.
Collection Number	MS 337
Language:	Materials are in English
Repository	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu

Biographical Note

Gary Paul Nabhan was born 17 March 1952 in Gary, Indiana, a son of Theodore B. and Wanda Mary (Goodwin) Nabhan. He attended Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa; Prescott College in Prescott, Arizona, and received a PhD in Arid Lands Resources from the University of Arizona in 1983.

Nabhan advocates for the preservation of desert plants, native seeds, and the cultural traditions of Native Americans of the southwestern United States. The fieldwork for his dissertation, "Papago Fields: Arid lands ethnobotany and agricultural ecology" (University of Arizona 1983), was conducted in the Tohono O'odham nation.

Nabhan began his professional career as a research associate with the Office of Arid Land Studies at the University of Arizona. In 1983, he co-founded Native Seeds/SEARCH, a grassroots conservation organization dedicated to collecting and preserving the native seeds of the desert Southwest. He was assistant director of the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Arizona, and later writer-in-residence and director of science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.

He is widely published in both scientific juornals and the American trade press. Awards include a McArthur Fellowship, a Pew Scholarship for conservation research, and a John Burroughs Medal in 1987 for outstanding nature writing in "Gathering the Desert."

Scope and Content Note

This collection includes notes and journals from Nabhan's fieldwork studies and published writing, post-print copies of professional and popular publications, project files, and transparency slides for use in research and public presentations. Most materials date to the decade after Nabhan received his PhD (1983) and reflect his publishing activity moreso than his administrative responsibilities or personal life.

Organization

At the time of donation, Gary Nabhan included empty, labeled folders for articles he had written but of which he did not have a physical copy. These empty folders are not reflected in the finding aid, but were retained in the boxes. When new materials were added to the collection in 2018, new empty folders were not incorporated. A complete list of empty folders - from both the original collection and the latter addition - is available in Box 7, Folder 92. This collection is organized into six series:

Series 1: Journals and notebooks, 1969-2008
Series 2: Published materials, 1978-1998
Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1979-1997
Series 4: Monographs, 1993-2002
Series 5: Production materials, 1988
Series 6: Slides, 1972-1990

Restrictions

There are no restrictions on access to this collection.

Copyright

Permission to publish over 500 words from the collection must be obtained from Mr. Nabhan. Administration of copyright is retained by Mr. Nabhan.

It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.

Related Material

Gary Paul Nabhan papers (Collections 2011-0022-X; 2015-0172-B). Southwest Collection. Special Collections Library. Texas Tech University.

Access Terms

Corporate Name(s)

Native Seeds/Search (Organization)

Geographic Name(s)

Arizona -- Environmental conditions.

Sonoran Desert.

Southwest, New -- Description and travel.

Southwest, New -- Environmental conditions.

Subject(s)

Biodiversity conservation -- West (U.S.)

Conservation biology -- West (U.S.)

Desert plants -- Arizona

Gastronomy.

Natural history -- Arizona.

Plant communities -- Sonoran desert.

Plant conservation -- North America.

Pollinators -- West (U.S.)

Seeds -- United States.

Tohono O'odham Indians -- Ethnobotany.

Wild flowers -- Arizona.

Administrative Information

Credit Line

Gary Nabhan papers (MS 337). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.

Processing History

This collection was processed by Special Collections in the early 2000s. An addition was processed by Dani Stuchel in 2018.

Container List


Series 1: Journals and Notebooks, 1969–2008
	Scope and Contents
	Nature writing journals, notebooks, and fieldwork journals created by Nabhan and his associates, dated from 1969 to 1997. Descriptions of most of the individual items were supplied by Nabhan and appear in the inventory below. Correspondence or other papers found in the journals remain in the folder with the journal in which they were found.

	Arrangement
	Arranged chronologically.

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1	1	Fieldwork Journal, 1969–1971
			Scope and Contents
			Topics: Poetry, drawings. Places: Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa; Gary and Hobart, Indiana; 1st Earth Day Headquarters, Washington DC; Prescott College, Arizona.

1	2	Fieldwork Journal, 1969–1971
			Scope and Contents
			Topics: Concrete poetry, "Multimedia Art." Place: Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa. Note: "First 1 1/2 yrs of undergraduate study"

1	3	Notebook, 1971
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: "Shamanism & the Beginnings of Art" Study Book. Place: Prescott College, Arizona.

1	4	Notebook, 1972
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: "Literature of the Deserts" Study Book. Place: Prescott College, Arizona. Gary Nabhan and Howard Lyon. Note: "Nabhan's First Sonoran Desert Writing"

1	5	Notebook, 1972–1973
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: "Literature of Prairie & Plains" field course. Place: Prescott College. G. Nabhan, Howard Lyon, Cathy Preuss.

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8	11	Field notes - Pinacate and Colorado River Delta, 1975
			Scope and Contents
			Some notes by Richard Felger and Kim Clifton.

8	12	El frijolero's Bavi (tepary bean) notebook, 1975
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2	1	Nature Writing Journal, 1977–1978
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Spiritual reflections, Songs, poems. Romance with Karen Reichardt. Places: Tucson, Arizona; Rosemont, Arizona.

2	2	Field Journal, 1977–1978
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Pima and Papago ethnobotany fieldnotes and readings. Places: St. Johns / Komatke, Arizona; Laveen Little Tucson / Ali Cukson, Arizona; Fresnal Village / Jizwuli Dak, Arizona; Ventana Cave / Nakajigul, Arizona.

2	3	Field Plantings, 1978–1979
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Landscape and native crop plantings, Pre-Native Seeds/SEARCH garden trials. Places: 510 West Pelaar, Tucson, Arizona. Note on book: Garden Logbook and Experiment Record.

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8	16	Papago fields and surroundings notebook, 1979–2008
			Scope and Contents
			Used in Nabhan dissertation and book chapter in "Aridland Springs of North America" (University of Arizona Press).

8	9	"Desert Smells like Rain" notebook - Baboquivari, 1979–1982
8	13	Papago fields dissertation notes, 1979–1982
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2	4	Field Journal, 1979-ca.1981
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Tohono O'odham agricultural fields-- and related interviews. Places: Ali Cukson / Little Tucson, Arizona; Ge Oidag / Big Fields, Arizona; Topawa, Arizona.

2	5	Field "Plantings" / Weed communities, 1980
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Disturbance-responses of annuals on Hohokam terraces. Places: Tucson and Tortolita mountains; Marana, Arizona. Note: "Work with Karen Reichardt and Suzanne Fish" (some loose pages in book).

2	6	Nature Writing Journal, 1980–1982
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Papago (O'odham) Agricultural Terms from various dictionaries and ethnographies in preparation for PhD dissertation & The Desert Smells Like Rain.

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8	8	"Desert Smells like Rain" notebook - birds and plants, 1980
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7	93	Poems -- various, 1980, 1984
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2	7	Fieldwork Journal, Gary Nabhan & Karen Reichardt, 1981–1984
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Laura Kerman Oral History, Phenology of house w[est] of Tumamoc Hill. Places: Topawa& Tucson, Arizona; Cabeza Prieta, Arizona; (some loose pages in journal).

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7	94	Loose notes -- various, 1981, 1990-1991, undated
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8	1	Poems and field notes from saguaro booklet for National Parks and Conservation Association, 1982–1985
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2	8	Fieldwork Journal, 1983–1985
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Sonoran Desert Ethnobotany, preludes to Gathering the Desert , Bacanora, Chiltepin, Palm; Gourds. Places: Eastern Sonora; Papagueriz Mexicali Valley, BCN; Tumacacori, Arizona; Magdalena, Sonora; Onavas, Sonora.

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8	2	Field notes for "Gathering the Desert", 1984
			Scope and Contents
			Notes from Sonora, Mexico including ethnobotany and food plants.

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2	9	Fieldwork Journal, 1987–1988
			Scope and Contents
			Topic Cucurbit (gourd)& bean ethnobotany & biogeography, Cactus population ecology. Places: Durango-Mazatlán hwy, Mexico; Creel, Chihuahua, Mexico; Eastern Sonora, Mexico; Western Tamaulipas, Mexico; Big Bend, ; Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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7	96	Field notes from Rio Grande rafting through Big Bend and Coahuila, 1988
			Scope and Contents
			Trips taken with Wendy Hodgson, Donny House, and Marcos Paredes (Yaqui).

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8	5	Desert of Spirits journal, 1988–1990
			Scope and Contents
			Notes from Sonora, Mexico and Italy. Used for "Desert Legends" and "Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves."

8	15	Journal dedicated to St. Francis of Assisi, 1988–1992
			Scope and Contents
			Used in "Desert Legends" and "Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves."

8	14	Pediocactus papyracanthus (cryptocactus) notebook, 1989
			Scope and Contents
			For US Fish and Wildlife status report.

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2	10	Nature Writing Journal, 1992–1993
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Counting sheep, Biophilia, Geography of Childhood, O'odham concepts of wildness. Places: Tontozona, Arizona (ASU-sponsored workshop); Woodshole, Mass. (Yale-Harvard Biophilia Workshop); Gallup, NM (1st meeting of Traditional Native American Farmers Assoc.); Organpipe Cactus National Monument; Tohono O'odham Reservation.

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8	4	Notebook on Mescal in Sonora, 1992
			Scope and Contents
			Trips taken with Dustin Nabhan, son of G.P. Nabhan, Jack Turner, and Conrad Bahre.

8	10	Native American diet journal, 1992
			Scope and Contents
			Used for "Why Some like it Hot" and "Coming Home to Eat"

8	3	Field journal for "Desert Legends", 1993
			Scope and Contents
			Includes rough drafts for Desert Follies and Borderline Fools.

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7	97	Field notes from "Canyons of Color", 1994–1995
			Scope and Contents
			Notes with Caroline Wilson in Utah and Northern Arizona.

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8	6	Pollinator field studies notebook, 1995
			Scope and Contents
			Used for "Forgotten Pollinators" with Steve Buchmann.

8	7	Butterfly tours notebook, 1995
			Scope and Contents
			Notes from butterfly tours at Arizona Sonora Desert Museum and in Michoacán, Mexico monarch reserves.

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2	11	Fieldnotes and Research, Summer 1997
			Scope and Contents
			Topic: Boojums and Sonorisnos.

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7	95	Opata notebook, undated


Series 2: Published materials, 1978–1998
	Scope and Contents
	Publications by G.P. Nabhan and his collaborators. These are largely post-print copies of academic journal, trade magazine, and popular press articles.

	Arrangement
	Arranged chronologically based on publication date.

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2	1	A characterization of Galapagos mangrove communities (with a preliminary consideration of their ecological succession in relation to coastal geomorphological evolution).Charles Darwin Research Institute, San Diego. , 1973
2	2	The ecology of Laguna de la Cruz, Bahia de Kino, Sonora, Mexico: A preliminary manuscript done for Prescott College Center for Man & Environment from fieldwork in 1972 and 1973.Prescott College Center for Environment, Prescott. , 1973
2	1	A characterization of Galapagos mangrove communities (with a preliminary consideration of their ecological succession in relation to coastal geomorphological evolution).Charles Darwin Research Institute, San Diego. , 1973
2	2	The ecology of Laguna de la Cruz, Bahia de Kino, Sonora, Mexico: A preliminary manuscript done for Prescott College Center for Man & Environment from fieldwork in 1972 and 1973.Prescott College Center for Environment, Prescott. , 1973
2	3	Prairie revival': bringing native grasses back to pastures, backyards. High Country News, 6(22), 6-7. , 1974
2	20	Felger, Richard S. and G. P. Nabhan. Agroecosystem diversity: a model from the Sonoran Desert. In AAAS Selected Symposium, 10: Social and Technological Management in Dry Lands: Past and Present, Indigenous and Imposed. Nancie L. Gonzalez, ed. Westview Press. (reprint copy and book), 1978
2	21	Chiltepines! wild spice of the American southwest. El Palacio: Quarterly Journal of the Museum of New Mexico,84(2), 30-34. , 1978
2	22	Cottonwoods: sacred and sensible. High Country News, 10, 8-9. , 1978 November 3
2	25	Sheridan, Thomas Edward, and Gary Paul Nabhan. Living with a river: traditional farmers of the Rio San Miguel. The Journal of Arizona History 19, 1-16, 1978
2	27	Nabhan, Gary P. and Richard S. Felger. Teparies in southwestern North America: a biogeographical and ethnohistorical study of Phaseolus acutifolius. Economic Botany 32(1), 2-19, 1978
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7	1	Review of "Killing the Hidden Waters" by C. Bowden. High Country News, 1978
7	2	Endangered Crops Associated with Traditional Agriculture in Southwestern North America: Conservation and Potential Uses. Interciencia Proceedings, 1978
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2	28	Tepary bean domestication: ecological and nutritional changes during Phaseolus acutifolius evolution.MS Thesis, University of Arizona. [Thesis is in UA Special Collections, E9791 1978 142. Folder contains a Nabhan article based on his thesis, Tepary Beans: The effects of domestication on adaptations to arid environments. Arid Lands Newsletter, 10(April 1979):11-16.] , 1979
2	32	Developing new crops is old idea in Arizona. Progressive Agriculture in Arizona.30(3), 12-15. , 1979
2	33	The ecology of floodwater farming in arid southwestern North America. Agro-Ecosystems, 5, 245-255. , 1979
2	34	Nabhan, G.P., C.W. Weber, and J.W. Berry. Legumes in the Papago- Pima Indian diet and ecological niche. The Kiva,44(2-3), 173-190, 1979
2	36	Qui protege les semences qui nous sauveront? Mazingira 9, 53-58. , 1979
2	37	Nabhan, Gary, and David Yetman. Seeds: green revolution reaps cruel harvest. The Arizona Daily Star, July 15, 1979, H1, 1979
2	39	Tepary beans: the effects of domestication on adaptations to arid environments. Arid Lands Newsletter 10, 11-16. , 1979 April
2	38	Southwestern Indian sunflowers. Desert Plants, 1(1), 23-26. , 1979 August
2	41	Who is saving the seeds to save us? Mazingira9, 55-59. , 1979
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7	3	Review of "If Mountains Die" by J. Nichols. High Country News, 1979
7	4	Review of "Wind in the Rock" by Zwinger. The American West, 1979
7	5	Traditional technology for floodplain management. Symposium on Flood Monitoring and Management, 1979
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2	35	New crops for desert farming. The New Farm,1, 52-60. , 1979, March-April
2	42	Ammabroma sonorae, an endangered parasitic plant in extremely arid North America. Desert Plants, 2(3), 188-196. , 1980
2	48	Nabhan, Gary, James Berry, Cynthia Anson, and Charles Weber. Papago Indian floodwater fields and tepary bean protein yields. Ecology of Food and Nutrition,10, 71-78, 1980
2	49	Hitt, Sam, and Gary Nabhan. Pitcher irrigation for dry soil gardens. Organic Gardening, 27, 124-127, 1980 November
2	53	Nabhan, G.P., J.W. Berry, and C.W. Weber. Wild beans of the greater southwest: Phaseolus metcalfei and Phaseolus ritensis. Economic Botany 34(1), 68-85, 1980
2	43	Arid land agriculture: Native crops of the greater southwest. Dry Country News, 5, 10-12. , 1980, Spring
2	44	Arid land agriculture. Dry Country News, 6, 28-29, 1980, Summer
2	45	Cottonwoods: sacred and sensible. Dry Country News 6, 52. , 1980, Summer
2	50	Raising hell . . . as well as wheat: Papago Indians burying the borderline. La Confluencia, a Magazine for the Southwest,3(3&4),18-22. , 1980, Summer
2	51	The seeds of prehistory. Garden, 4, 8-12, 1980, May/June
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7	6	Ammobroma sonorae, an endangered parasitic plant. Desert Plants, 1980
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2	54	Nabhan, Gary, Alfred Whiting, Henry Dobyns, Richard Hevly, and Robert Euler. Devil's claw domestication: evidence from Southwestern Indian fields. Journal of Ethnobiology, 1(1),135-164, 1981
2	55	Berry, J., P.K. Bretting, G.P. Nabhan, and C. Weber. Domesticated Proboscidea parviflora: a potential oilseed crop for arid lands. Journal of Arid Environments 4, 147-160, 1981
2	56	Nabhan, Gary, Cynthia Anson, Mahina Drees, and Danny Lopez. Kaicka: Seed saving the Papago-Pima Way: A guide for desert gardeners and farmers. Tucson, AZ: Meals for Millions/Freedom From Hunger Foundations, 1981
2	59	Niethammer, Carolyn, Gary Nabhan, Mahina Drees, and Cynthia Anson. Seed banks serving people: Highlights of a workshop, October 9-10, 1981. Tucson, AZ: Meals for Millions/Freedom From Hunger Foundation, 1981
2	61	Nabhan, Gary, Ken Vogler, and Karen Reichardt. Tepary bean crop ecology, Papago Indian Reservation, Arizona. Annual Report of the Bean Improvement Cooperative, 1981
2	58	Runoff farming for dry lands. The New Farm, 3, 50-53, 1981, May-June
2	60	The Sonoran Desert bioregion. Co-Evolution Quarterly,32, 86 -87. (Also in this issue is a book review by Nabhan on Pueblo Indian Cookbook and Hopi Cookery, 51) , 1981, Winter
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3	66	The desert smells like rain. Japanese edition. Translation rights arranged with Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. New York through Tuttle - Mori Agency Inc., Tokyo. , 1982
3	67	Papago Indian desert agriculture and water control, 1697-1934. In Application of remote sensing in evaluating floodwater farming on the Papago Indian Reservation. Tucson: Applied Remote Sensing Program, Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona; Completion Report, OWRT Project No. C-90258-G. , 1982
3	68	Nabhan, Gary P., Amadeo M. Rea, Karen L. Reichardt, Eric Mellink, and Charles F. Hutchinson. Papago influences on habitat and biotic diversity: Quitovac oasis ethnoecology. Journal of Ethnobiology2(2),124-143, 1982
3	69	Sunflower of Indians of the Southwest. The Sunflower 8, 30 and 32. , 1982 January
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7	7	Conserving variability within collections. Seed Savers Exchange, 1982
7	8	Papago poetry finds power in new forms, review of "When it Rains." Coyote, 1982
7	9	Papago influences on habitat and biotic diversity, Journal of Ethnobiology, 1982
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3	71	Hopi protection of Helianthus anomalus, a rare sunflower. Southwestern Naturalist,28(2), 231-235. , 1983
3	73	Kokopelli: The humpbacked flute player. Reprinted in Ten Years of CoEvolution Quarterly: News that stayed news, 1947-57.San Francisco: North Point Press. , 1983
3	74	Papago fields: Arid lands ethnobotany and agricultural ecology. PhD dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson. (UMI abstract is in folder. Copy is in UA Special Collections, E9791 1983 424). , 1983
3	78	Nabhan, Gary Paul, and Helga Teiwes. Tepary beans, O'odham farmers and desert fields. Desert Plants5(1), 15-37. (This issue was titled: The desert tepary as a food source: a journal symposium, edited by Gary Paul Nabhan. He wrote guest editorial inside front cover.), 1983
3	79	Wild species protected by Arizona Hopi farmers. The Sunflower 9, 34-35. , 1983 December
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7	10	Keeping alive food options in deserts. The Seedhead News, 1983
7	11	Wild relatives of crops in the Southwest. The Seedhead News, 1983
7	12	Conserving beans - from the FAO to the mountains of Mexico. The Seedhead News, 1983
7	13	Review of "A Wealth of Wild Species" by N. Myers. The Seedhead News, 1983
7	14	A design for drought. Organic Gardening, 1983
7	15	Seedkeepers in their own right: binational team works. The Seedhead News, 1983
7	16	Review of agroecosistemas-boletin informativo. The Seedhead News, 1983
7	17	Plant and wildlife diversity associated, 1983
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3	73	Kokopelli: The humpbacked flute player; a Native American patron saint for conserving agricultural diversity as a community responsibility. CoEvolution Quarterly, 37, 4-11. , 1983, Spring
3	76	Rea, Amadeo M., Gary P. Nabhan, and Karen L. Reichardt. Sonoran desert oases: plants, birds, and native people. Environment Southwest, 503, 5-9, 1983, Autumn
3	81	Evidence of gene flow between cultivated Cucurbita mixta and a field edge population of wild Cucurbita at Onavas, Sonora. Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Newsletter7, 76-77. , 1984
3	83	Merrick, Laura C., and Gary P. Nabhan. Natural hybridization of wild Cucurbita sororia group and domesticated C. mixta in southern Sonora, Mexico. Cucurbit Genetics Cooperative Newsletter 7, 73-75, 1984
3	84	Nabhan, Gary, and J. M. J. de Wet. Panicum sonorum in Sonoran Desert agriculture. Economic Botany, 38(1), 65-82, 1984
3	85	Replenishing desert agriculture with native plants and their symbionts. In Meeting the expectations of the land: Essays in sustainable agriculture and stewardship. W. Jackson, W. Berry, and B. Colman, eds. San Francisco: North Point Press. , 1984
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7	18	Abstract of "Papago fields: arid lands ethnobotany." Dissertation Abstracts International, 1984
7	19	Panicum sonorum in Sonoran Desert agriculture. Economic Botany, 1984
7	20	Sonoran panicgrass: does it merit U.S. endangered species status? The Seedhead News, 1984
7	21	Review of "Diversity: a news journal." The Seedhead News, 1984
7	22	Safekeeping Mexican genetic resources. The Seedhead News, 1984
7	23	In situ conservation of native crop diversity. The Seedhead News, 1984
7	24	Review of "El fin del principo." The Seedhead News, 1984
7	25	Seed savers in their own right (excerpts from interview). The Seedhead News, 1984
7	26	Wild beans and useful genes. The Seedhead News, 1984
7	27	Review of "The diversity of crop plants" by J.G. Hawkes. The Seedhead News, 1984
7	28	Mesquite: another great American legume. Organic Gardening, 1984
7	29	Throwing up the clouds. The Tucson Weekly, 1984
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3	87	Gathering the desert. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Winner of the John Burroughs Medal. File contains paperback from fourth printing. , 1985–1990
3	90	Nabhan, G.P. and B.T. Burns. Palmilla (Nolina) fiber: a native plant industry in arid and semi-arid U.S./Mexico borderlands. Journal of Arid Environments 9, 97-103, 1985
3	98	Nabhan, Gary P., and Richard S. Felger. Wild desert relatives of crops: Their direct uses as food. In Plants for arid lands: Proceedings of the Kew International Conference on Economic Plants for Arid Lands held in the Jodrell Laboratory, Botanical Gardens, Kew, England, 23-27 July 1984.G.E. Wilkins, J.R. Goodin, D.V. Field, eds. London: Allen &Unwin, 19-33, 1985
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7	30	Nabhan, Gary and Kevin Dahl. Role of grassroots activities in the maintenance of biological diversity. Native Seeds/SEARCH, 1985
7	31	Seeds: our cultural heritage. Native Seeds/SEARCH, 1985
7	32	Review of "Biophilia" by E.O. Wilson. The Seedhead News, 1985
7	33	Tepary workshop announcement. The Seedhead News, 1985
7	34	Putting teparies back on the map. The Seedhead News, 1985
7	35	Field collecting the plant diversity of a Tepechuan indigenous village. The Seedhead News, 1985
7	36	Phaseolus actifolius descriptors. International Board for Plant Genetic Resources, 1985
7	85	The red-hot mother of chiles. Impact: Albuquerque Journal Magazine 9(5), 1985
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3	101	Nabhan, Gary P., and W. Bruce Masse. Floodwater agriculture in the Sonoran: Ethnographic and archaeological perspectives. Paper prepared for the 51stAnnual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, 23-26 April. New Orleans. , 1986
3	103	The garden's goal: Reversing desert degradation. Agave 2, 14-15, 1986
3	109	Regional seedstocks and Oscar Will's vegetables: Learning from agricultural history. Seed Savers Exchange, Harvest ed,178-180. , 1986
3	112	The Sonoran Desert. In Arizona: The land and the people. T. Miller, ed. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. , 1986
3	113	Nabhan, Gary, Victor Gass, and Patrick Quirk. Thornberg's fishhook cactus: Conserving a declining species. Agave 2, 4-8, 1986
3	115	Nabhan, G.P., J. Muruaga Matinez, F. Cardenas-Ramos, and B.T. Burns. Wild bean exploration in the Northwest Mexico and Southwest USA.FAO/IBPGR Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 65,23-25, 1986
3	119	Bretting, P.K., and G.P. Nabhan. Ethnobotany of devil's claw (Proboscides parviflora ssp. parviflora: Martyniaceae) in the greater Southwest. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology,8(2),226-237, 1986
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7	37	How are tropical deforestation and desertification affecting plant genetic resources? Annals of Earth, 1986
7	38	Native American crop diversity. Agriculture and Human Values, 1986
7	39	Papago Indian desert agriculture and water control. Applied Geography, 1986
7	40	Ak-chin 'arroyo mouth' and the environmental setting of the Papago. Applied Geography, 1986
7	84	Nabhan, G.P., Greenhouse, R., and Wendy Hodgson. At the edge of extinction: useful plants of the border states of the United States and Mexico. Arnoldia 46(3):33-35, 1986
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3	121	Native foods of desert peoples found to control diabetes. The Seedhead News19, 1,3. , 1987
3	122	Nurse plant ecology of threatened desert plants. In Rare & Endangered plants: A California symposium proceedings. T. Elias. Sacramento: California Native Plant Society. (Conference program and abstracts in folder; book missing.). , 1987
3	123	Plant domestication and folk-biological change: the Upper Piman/devil's claw example. American Anthropologist,89(1), 57-73. , 1987
3	125	Saving native plants. American Land Forum,12-14. , 1987
3	126	Using natural desert ecosystems as models for Agroforestry: The gray, spiney revolution. Paper presented at the Symposium on Strategies for Classification and Management of Native Vegetation for Food Production in Arid Zones,12-16 October. Tucson, Arizona. 232-234, 250. , 1987
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7	41	The ethnobotany of threatened succulents. 4th Huntington Symposium on Succulent Plants, 1987
7	42	Near extinct gourd found. The Seedhead News, 1987
7	43	Ethnobotany and conservation: valuing diversity. Environmental Southwest, 1987
7	44	The desert's future. Agave, 1987
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3	117	The desert's future. Agave: Quarterly Magazine of the Desert Botanical Garden,2:10-13. , 1987, Fall
3	118	Ethnobiology and conservation: valuing diversity. Environment Southwest, 519,28-31. , 1987, Autumn
3	128	Pratt, R.D., and G.P. Nabhan. Evolution and diversity of Phaseolus acutifolius tepary genetic resources. In Genetic Resources of Phaseolus Beans. Paul Gepts, ed. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 409-440, 1988
3	130	Invisible erosion: the rise and fall of native farming. Journal of the Southwest 30, 550-572, 1988
3	131	Southwest project cuts across cultural, national boundaries. Center for Plant Conservation, 3(2), 1 and 8. , 1988
3	133	Andres, Thomas C., and Gary P. Nabhan. Taxonomic rank and rarity of Cucurbita okeechobeensis. Rep-Cucurbit-Genet-Coop,11,83-85, 1988
3	134	Nabhan, Gary Paul, Robert Tobichaux, Mark Slater, and Suzanne Nelson. Useful desert plants for low-input polycultures. Arid Lands Newsletter, 27, 11-14, 1988
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4	150	Andres, Thomas C., and Gary P. Nabhan. Taxonomic rank and rarity of Cucurbita okeechobeensis. FAO/IPBGR Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter,75/76, 21-22, 1988
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7	45	New national focus brewing on Indian agriculture. The Seedhead News, 1988
7	46	Averting genetic erosion and vulnerability. New Alchemy, 1988
7	47	Thinking globally, saving diversity locally. The Seedhead News, 1988
7	48	Heaven and hell in a Mexican biosphere reserve. Earth First!, 1988
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3	135	Enduring seeds: Native American agriculture and wild plant conservation. San Francisco: North Point Press. , 1989
3	137	Nabhan, Gary Paul, and Ann Zwinger. Field notes and the literary process. In Writing Natural History: Dialogues with Authors. Edward Lueders, ed. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1989
3	140	Gift of the Manitok: from the waters of northern Wisconsin, the Ojibway reap nature's blessing--wild rice. Harrowsmith,4, 72-79. , 1989 February
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4	141	Nabhan, Gary Paul, Wendy Hodgson, and Frances Fellows. A meager living on lava and sand? Hia Ced O'odham food resources and habitat diversity in oral and documentary histories. Journal of the Southwest 31(4), 508-533. Two copies, 1989
4	142	Nabhan, Gary, and David Valenciano. A modest proposal: Restoring the Sonoran Desert at Barnes Butte Bajada. Agave3, 3-5, 1989
4	143	On the bright edges of the world: southwest traditions of knowing and growing herbs. The Herb Companion, 1, 12-14. , 1989
4	144	Plants at risk in the Sonoran Desert: An international concern. Agave 3(3), 14-15, 1989
4	147	Hodgson, Wendy, Gary Nabhan, and Liz Ecker. Prehistoric fields in Central Arizona: Conserving rediscovered agave cultivars. Agave 3, 9-11, 1989
4	148	Rescuing Arizona's endangered plants. Arizona Highways, 65(3), 34-41. , 1989 March
4	149	Seeds of renewal. World Monitor 2(1), 17-20. , 1989
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7	49	Threatened Hohokam agaves need your help. The Seedhead News, 1989
7	50	Invisible erosion: the rise and fall of native farming. The Seedhead News, 1989
7	51	Further evidence regarding gene flow between maize and teosinte. Maize Genetics Cooperative Newsletter, 1989
7	52	El papel de la etnobotanica en la conservacion. Biotam, 1989
7	53	Friendship and landscape. The Bloomsbury Review, 1989
7	54	Invisible erosion: the rise and fall of native farming. The Seedhead News, 1989
7	83	Reichardt, K. et al. The use of regional native flora for desert landscaping. The Plant Press. 13(1), 1989
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4	151	A child's sense of wilderness. Orion, 9, 54-57, 1990
4	152	Conservationists and forest service join forces to wave wild chiles. Diversity 6(3&4), 47-48, 1990
4	154	Desert whirlwinds. Phoenix 25, 84-93, 1990 November
4	157	The evolution of a naturalist: finding the wild thread. Petroglyph 2, 5-7. , 1990
4	159	Healing the desert. Garden 14, 21-25. , 1990
4	160	Managing cultural resources in Sonoran desert biosphere reserves. Cultural Survival Quarterly 14(4), 26-30. , 1990
4	162	New crops for small farmers in marginal lands? Wild chiles as a case study. Agroecology and Small Farm Development. Miguel A. Altieri and Susann B. Hecht, eds. Boca Raton: CRC Press. , 1990
4	163	On tumbleweeds and dust. Northern Lights,6(3), 11-13, 1990
4	165	Brand, Janette C., B. Janelle Snow, Gary P. Nabhan, and A. Stewart Truswell. Plasma glucose and insulin responses to traditional Pima Indian meals. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 51, 416-420, 1990
4	167	Systematic and ecogeographic studies on crop genepools, 5: Wild Phaseolus ecogeography in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico: Areographic techniques for targeting and conserving species diversity. Rome, Italy: International Board for Plant Genetic Resources. , 1990
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7	55	Florutil: ethnobotany of rare plants. The Desert Botanical Garden. Final report to National Parks Service, 1990
7	56	Food, health, and Native-American agriculture. North Point Press, 1990
7	57	Hohokam agave status as threatened species. The Seedhead News, 1990
7	58	Bush food: Australia's revival of wild edibles. The Seedhead News, 1990
7	92	Hypoglycemic effects of Native desert foods of the River Pima, 1990
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4	169	Nabhan, Gary P., Donna House, Humberto Suzan A., Wendy Hodgson, Luis Hernandez S. and Guadalupe Malta. Conservation and use of rare plants by traditional cultures of the U.S./Mexico borderlands. In Biodiversity: Culture, conservation, and ecodevelopment. M. Oldfield and J. Alcorn, eds. Boulder: Westview Press. (only 2 pages in folder), 1991
4	171	Cryptic cacti on the borderline. Orion10(4), 26-31. , 1991
4	172	Fish, Suzanne K. and Gary P. Nabhan. Desert as context: the Hohokam environment. In Exploring the Hohokam: Prehistoric desert peoples of the American Southwest. G. J. Gumerman, ed. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. (two copies), 1991
4	173	Desert legumes as a nutritional intervention for diabetic indigenous dwells of arid lands. Arid Lands Newsletter31, 11-13. , 1991
4	174	Nelson, Suzanne C., Gary P. Nabhan, and Robert H. Robichaux. Effects of water nitrogen and competition on growth yield and yield components of field-grown tepary bean. Experimental Agriculture 27,211-219, 1991
4	176	Dahl, Kevin, and Gary Paul Nabhan. From the grassroots up: plant genetic resource conservation by grassroots organizations in North America. Seed Savers Exchange, 1991 June 1
4	178	Genetic resources of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands: wild relatives of crops, their uses and conservation. In Environmental Hazards and Bioresource Management in the United States-Mexico Borderlands. P. Ganster and H.Walter, eds. Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications. , 1991
4	179	The moveable O'odham feat of San Francisco. Native Peoples 4(2), 28- 34. , 1991
4	180	Restoring and re-storying the landscape. Restoration and Management Notes, 9,3-4. , 1991
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7	59	Fiber content of native O'odham foods of the Sonoran desert. Native Seeds/SEARCH, 1991
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4	177	Anderson, Kat, and Gary Paul Nabhan. Gardeners in Eden: Native American land management. Wilderness 55, 27-30, 1991, Fall
4	182	A child's sense of wildness. Finding Home.Peter Sauer, ed. Boston: Beacon Press. 229-236. , 1992
4	183	Nabhan, Gary Paul, and Ted Fleming. The conservation of mutualisms. Species, 19, 32-34. (two copies), 1992 December
4	186	Desert rescuers. World Monitor, 5(7), 36-41 , 1992
4	188	The fate of the desert on the line. World Monitor, 1992
4	190	Hummingbirds and human aggression: A view from the high tanks. The Georgia Review46(2), 213-232. , 1992
4	193	Native American cornucopia. Native Peoples Magazine, 5(3), 10-16. , 1992
4	205	Threatened Native American plants. Endangered Species Update, 9(11),1-4. , 1992
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7	60	Representing the lives of plants and animals. Wild Earth, 1992
7	61	A note from Gary Nabhan. Grad Line. Arizona State University, 1992
7	62	Pollination ecology of Peniocereus striatus (abstract). 22nd IOS Congress, 1992
7	86	Desert rescuers. World Monitor: The Christian Science Monitor Monthly 38(July), 1992
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4	208	Confessions from a sheep blind. Counting Sheep: 20 Ways of Seeing Desert Bighorn. G.P. Nabhan, ed. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.155-170. , 1993
4	214	Ironwood: Nurseries of the Sonoran Desert. Conservation International Members' Report,11-13. , 1993
4	218	Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves: An American Naturalist in Italy. New York: Pantheon Books. , 1993
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7	63	The conservation of new world mutualisms. Conservation Biology, 1993
7	64	In situ conservation of threatened plant resources: their management in protected areas. Native Seeds/SEARCH, 1993
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4	222	Nabhan, Gary Paul, and Humberto Suzan. Boundary effects on endangered cacti and their nurse plants in and near a Sonoran Desert biosphere reserve. Occasional Papers in Conservation Biology, 1: Ironwood: An Ecological and Cultural Keystone of the Sonoran Desert. G. P. Nabhan and J. L. Carr, eds. Washington, DC: Conservation International, 1994
4	225	The far outside. In Place of the Wild: A Wildland's Anthology. David Clarke Burks, ed. Washington, DC: Island Press. 19-27. , 1994
4	228	Nabhan, Gary Paul and John L. Carr. Occasional papers in conservation biology, 1: Ironwood: An ecological and cultural keystone of the Sonoran Desert. Washington, DC: Conservation International, 1994 April
4	229	Natural history crashes, resurfaces. Heart of the Land: Essays on Last Great Places. Joseph Barbate and Lisa Weiner man, eds. New York: Patheon.86-91. , 1994
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7	65	Why playgrounds need to go wild. Landscape architecture, 1994
7	66	Playgrounds gone wild (draft), 1994
7	67	Portraits in sand. Nature Conservancy, 1994
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4	240	From the hidden garden. Journal of the Southwest 37(2), 401-415, 1995
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7	68	Preserve native plants, animals. The Phoenix Gazette, 1995
7	69	A midsummer night's pollination. Sonorensis, 1995
7	70	The rupture of discovering. The Trumpeter, 1995
7	71	A redrock place of the heart. Testimony: Writers of the West. Utah Wilderness, 1995
7	72	Seri Indian ethnoherpetology (abstract). International herpetological Symposium, 1995
7	73	Wildflower confessions: it's hell being an expert on the blooming. Tucson Weekly, 1995
7	74	Why playgrounds need to go wild. Seedsavers 1995 Harvest Edition, 1995
7	75	Do we really care about endangered species. Aridlands Newsletter, 1995
7	76	The dangers of reductionism in biodiversity conservation. Conservation Biology, 1995
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4	257	The Forgotten Pollinators. Washington DC: Island Press. , 1996
4	263	Nabhan, Gary, Angelo Joaquin, Jr., Nancy Laney, and Kevin Dahl. Sharing the benefits between indigenous communities and other conservators/users of plant genetic resources and ethnobotanical knowledge. In Valuing Local Knowledge: Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights. S. B. Brush and D. Stabinsky, eds. Covelo: Island Press. 186-208, 1996
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7	77	Composition of Sonoran desert foods used by Tohono O'odham and Pima Indians. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 1996
7	78	The desert smells like rain (excerpt). Sanctuary, 1996
7	79	Enduring seeds: the sacred lotus and the common bean. The Nature Reader, 1996
7	80	Creatures of Habitat, 1998
7	81	Nabhan, Gary P. and Andrew R. Holdsworth. State of the desert biome: uniqueness, biodiversity, threats and the adequacy of protection in the Sonoran bioregion. The Wildlands Project, 1998
7	90	Collaborating with indigenous communities. Recreation, Parks & Wildlife 9th Conference, 1998
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3	66	The desert smells like rain: A naturalist in Papago Indian country. San Francisco: North Point Press.1982 , undated
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7	87	Ethnobotany of wild Cucurbits in arid North America. An annotated bibliography, undated
7	88	Passing on a sense of place and traditional ecological knowledge, undated
7	89	Homage to Carols Petrini, undated
7	91	Endangered species and tribal lands: a position paper, undated


Series 3: Miscellaneous, 1979–1997
	Scope and Contents
	This series contains files demonstrating Nabhan's work on various projects, including the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix and ironwood conservation. Included also are newspaper clippings and press for Nabhan, his writing, and Native Seeds/SEARCH.

	Arrangement
	Arranged chronologically.

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9	3	Press for Native Seeds/SEARCH, 1979–1989
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5	1	Conference programs, 1980–1990
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9	4	Press and newspaper clippings - general, 1981-1990, undated
9	2	Reviews - "Desert Smells Like Rain" and "Gathering the Desert", 1985, undated
9	5	Data sheets - The Audio Press, circa 1990
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7	82	Ironwood conservation correspondence, 1992–1993
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8	17	Conference program - 5th U.S./Mexico Border States Conference on Recreation, Parks, and Wildlife, 1992
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5	1	Chilies to Chocolate : Food the Americans Gave the World, 1992
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7	92	List of empty folders donated by G.P. Nabhan, 2018


Series 4: Monographs, 1993–2002
	Scope and Contents
	This series contains copies of books to which G.P. Nabhan has contributed, as well as some books for which he is the sole or first author. Some books contain inscriptions or markings by Nabhan.

	Arrangement
	Arranged chronologically.

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5	2	Sacred trusts : Essays on Stewardship and Responsibility, 1993
5	2	Tucson Weekly; A Child's Sense of Wilderness, 1994
5	3	Desert Legends : Re-storying the Sonoran Borderlands, 1994
5	4	The Geography of Childhood : Why Children Need Wild Places, 1994
5	5	The Geography of Childhood : Why Children Need Wild Places.(Japanese edition) , 1994
5	6	Canyons of Color : Utah's Slickrock Wildlands, 1995
5	7	From the Islands' Edge : a Sitka Reader, 1995
5	8	Words from the Land : Encounters with Natural History Writing, 1995
5	9	Writing it Down for James : Writers on Life and Craft, 1995
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8	19	Directory of Radius of Arab-American Writers, Inc, 1996
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5	10	The Late Great Mexican Border : Report from a Disappearing Line, 1996
5	11	Resist Much Obey Little : Remembering Ed Abbey, 1996
5	12	American Nature Writing 1996, 1996
5	13	Travelers' Tales : Food- a Taste of the Road, 1996
5	14	The Sierra Club Wetlands Reader : a Literary Companion, 1996
5	15	Testimony : Writers of the West Speak on Behalf of Utah Wilderness, 1996
5	16	Cultures of Habitat : on Nature, Culture, and Story, 1997
5	17	Nature's Services : Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems, 1997
5	18	Passing on a Sense of Place and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Between Generations : a Primer for Native American Museum Educators and Community- Based Cultural Education Projects, 1997
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9	1	A conservation assessment of the Colorado Plateau ecoregion (CD), 2002
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8	18	Loose photograph, undated
8	20	Correspondence -- Desert Botanical Garden, undated
8	21	Info and recipe sheet for Native Seeds/SEARCH by Esther L. Moore, undated


Series 5: Production Materials, 1988
	Scope and Contents
	This series contains materials related to the production of Nabhan's monographs, including drafts and edits.

	Arrangement
	Arranged chronologically.

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6	1-6	"Counting Sheep.",
6	7-11	"Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery : Why Chilies are Hot.",
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9	6	"Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation - proofs, circa 1988
9	7	"The Desert Smells Like Rain" - Wendell Berry's edits, undated


Series 6: Slides, 1972–1990
	Scope and Contents
	This series contains slides produced for Nabhan's research as well as presentations on the Desert Botanical Gardens and Native Seeds/SEARCH.

	Arrangement
	Arranged chronologically.

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6	12-17	Slides,
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9	8	Slides - chiltepins, 1984-1985, 1996, undated
9	11	Slides - crop plants, 1972-1977, 1983-1989
9	9	Slides - farm workers, 1986, 1990, undated
9	10	Slides - fields, 1985-1990, undated
9	13	Slides - information presentations, 1982, undated
9	12	Slides - plant diagrams, undated