And Then There Were None: The Demise of Desert Bighorn Sheep in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness

by Paul R Krausman and Paul R. Krausman

Once plentiful in the mountains of southern Arizona, by the 1990s desert bighorn sheep were wiped out in the Pusch Ridge Wilderness of the Santa Catalina Mountains as a result of habitat loss and alteration. This book uses their history and population decline as a case study in human alteration of wildlife habitat. When human encroachment had driven the herd to extinction, wildlife managers launched a major and controversial effort to reestablish...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826357857
• ISBN13: 9780826357854
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"