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:
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.
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.
box
folder
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.
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.
box
folder
8
11
Field notes - Pinacate and Colorado River Delta, 1975
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.
box
folder
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
box
folder
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.
box
folder
8
8
"Desert Smells like Rain" notebook - birds and plants, 1980
box
folder
7
93
Poems -- various, 1980, 1984
box
folder
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).
box
folder
7
94
Loose notes -- various, 1981, 1990-1991, undated
box
folder
8
1
Poems and field notes from saguaro booklet for National Parks and
Conservation Association, 1982–1985
box
folder
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.
box
folder
8
2
Field notes for "Gathering the Desert", 1984
Scope and Contents
Notes from Sonora, Mexico including ethnobotany and food plants.
box
folder
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.
box
folder
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).
box
folder
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."
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.
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
7
6
Ammobroma sonorae, an endangered parasitic plant. Desert
Plants, 1980
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
3
117
The desert's future. Agave: Quarterly Magazine of the Desert
Botanical Garden,2:10-13.
, 1987, Fall
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
box
folder
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
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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
Seeds of renewal. World Monitor 2(1), 17-20.
, 1989
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folder
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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
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83
Reichardt, K. et al. The use of regional native flora for desert
landscaping. The Plant Press. 13(1), 1989
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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
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163
On tumbleweeds and dust. Northern Lights,6(3),
11-13, 1990
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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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folder
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55
Florutil: ethnobotany of rare plants. The Desert Botanical
Garden. Final report to National Parks Service, 1990
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56
Food, health, and Native-American agriculture. North Point
Press, 1990
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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
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92
Hypoglycemic effects of Native desert foods of the River
Pima, 1990
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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
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171
Cryptic cacti on the borderline. Orion10(4), 26-31.
, 1991
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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
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173
Desert legumes as a nutritional intervention for diabetic
indigenous dwells of arid lands. Arid Lands Newsletter31,
11-13.
, 1991
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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
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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
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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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59
Fiber content of native O'odham foods of the Sonoran desert.
Native Seeds/SEARCH, 1991
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folder
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
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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
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205
Threatened Native American plants. Endangered Species Update,
9(11),1-4.
, 1992
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folder
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60
Representing the lives of plants and animals. Wild
Earth, 1992
7
61
A note from Gary Nabhan. Grad Line. Arizona State
University, 1992
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62
Pollination ecology of Peniocereus striatus (abstract). 22nd IOS
Congress, 1992
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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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folder
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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
box
folder
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
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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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65
Why playgrounds need to go wild. Landscape
architecture, 1994
7
66
Playgrounds gone wild (draft), 1994
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67
Portraits in sand. Nature Conservancy, 1994
box
folder
4
240
From the hidden garden. Journal of the Southwest 37(2),
401-415, 1995
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folder
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
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74
Why playgrounds need to go wild. Seedsavers 1995 Harvest
Edition, 1995
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75
Do we really care about endangered species. Aridlands
Newsletter, 1995
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76
The dangers of reductionism in biodiversity conservation.
Conservation Biology, 1995
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257
The Forgotten Pollinators. Washington DC: Island Press.
, 1996
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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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77
Composition of Sonoran desert foods used by Tohono O'odham and
Pima Indians. Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 1996
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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
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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
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90
Collaborating with indigenous communities. Recreation, Parks
& Wildlife 9th Conference, 1998
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folder
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66
The desert smells like rain: A naturalist in Papago Indian
country. San Francisco: North Point Press.1982
, undated
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folder
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87
Ethnobotany of wild Cucurbits in arid North America. An annotated
bibliography, undated
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88
Passing on a sense of place and traditional ecological
knowledge, undated
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89
Homage to Carols Petrini, undated
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Endangered species and tribal lands: a position paper, undated
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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Press for Native Seeds/SEARCH, 1979–1989
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Conference programs, 1980–1990
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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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82
Ironwood conservation correspondence, 1992–1993
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folder
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17
Conference program - 5th U.S./Mexico Border States Conference on
Recreation, Parks, and Wildlife, 1992
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folder
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1
Chilies to Chocolate : Food the Americans Gave the
World, 1992
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folder
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List of empty folders donated by G.P. Nabhan, 2018
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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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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folder
8
19
Directory of Radius of Arab-American Writers, Inc, 1996
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folder
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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A conservation assessment of the Colorado Plateau ecoregion
(CD), 2002