The State of Water, Understanding California's Most Precious Resource Activity Books 5 plant tags

5 plant tags

Anurag Agrawal presents a vivid investigation into how the monarch butterfly has evolved closely alongside the milkweed—a toxic plant named for the sticky white substance emitted when its leaves are damaged—and how this inextricable and intimate relationship has been like an arms race over the millennia

Especially good coverage of southern California and southwestern states mushrooms often neglected in other field guides

Good background screen

climate change

The State of Water, Understanding California's Most Precious Resource Activity Books 5 plant tagsObi Kaufmann, author of the best selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden States single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full color maps unravel the braided knot of Californias water infrastructure and ecosystems, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resourcesa history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. But this built world