Desert Wetlands

Desert Wetlands

A new book by Lucian Niemeyer to be published in Spring of 2005, University of New Mexico Press.

Desert wetlands sounds like quite a contradiction, Yet in the vast dry areas of the country, sources of water become very valuable to man and to nature. In this large environment, rivers with overflow, springs and oasis, water pockets, water holes and rain become the very means of survival. Rivers like the Rio Grande, Colorado, Platte and others provide the north and south lifeblood that migrating animals need to continue their species. Protection of these wetlands and the animals that migrate using these sources of water is an important mission for man, in his stewardship of the planet earth. This study, the fourth of the wetland series by Mr. Niemeyer reveals the inner workings as well as the inhabitants of the desert. The essay is being done by Dr. Tom Fleischner of Prescott College. The book fulfills the wetland study of the mainland of the US which has been worked on by Mr. Niemeyer for almost 20 years. Currently the book is under contract with University Press of New Mexico to be published in March of 2005. The books starting with The Long-legged Wading Birds of the North American Wetlands, Stackpole Books 1993, then Where Water Meets Land, York Graphics 1996 and Okefenokee, Land of the Trembling Earth, University Press of Mississippi 2002. Each of the studies is meant to reveal another aspect of the wetlands to increase the readers perception of this important environmental phenomenom. Desert Wetlands completes this story in mainland North America With the exception of Where Water Meets Land all are oversized with excellent color reproductions of the images. Where Water Meets Land is a smaller version of the books filled with images that gives the reader a look at the wetlands in the US via representative views. It is meant fit the larger audience. Most of the images in that follow were made in Bosque del Apache in New Mexico. Click on thumbnail for larger image.