Sep 19, 2012 · Completing a monumental project that traces its origins back to the 1930s, The New York Botanical Garden Press has published the final volume of Intermountain Flora, which documents in extensive detail the plant life found between the Sierra Nevada and Rocky Mountains in the American West.

Striving to preserve and enhance the environment of the state in order to protect public health, sustain healthy ecosystems & contribute to a vibrant economy.

the Intermountain West indicates a landscape largely devoid of large ungulates (Ewers 1959, Kline 1963, Haines 1940, 1967 and 1955, Schroedl 1973). From this experience rangeland managers, plant ecologists and environmentalists have generally assumed that the flora and fauna of the Intermountain West evolved

Intermountain Flora. Seven volumes. 1997 – 2005. Cronquist, Arthur, Arthur H. Holmgren, Noel H. Holmgren, and James L. Reveal, 1997 - 2005. New York Botanical Garden.

Flora and Fauna of the Intermountain West The coevolution of warm-blooded animals and the flora appears to have began about 60 million years ago with the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Four major geographic provinces come together to form the Intermountain West: the Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, Middle Rocky Mountains, and Northern Rocky Mountains. The richness of native species and high level of endemism of its flora can be explained by the extraordinary diversity of habitats, climatic conditions, unique geology, and isolation.

These beautiful, glossy photos give us a glimpse of the hundreds of botanists, who through their hard work and dedication, made the Intermountain Flora (and other floristic works) possible. I heartily praise Noel and Patricia Holmgren for their compilation of this chapter.

In the Intermountain Flora, the Magnoliids include not only the Magnoliaceae and Saururaceae, but also both the Nymphaeales/Nymphaeaceae (now accepted as one of the first lineages of angiosperms and basal to the Magnoliids), and the Ranunculales (now accepted as basal Eudicots). In subclass Hamamelidae of the Intermountain Flora, the

Dec 31, 2014 · Intermountain Flora. Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. Vol. 1, Geological and Botanical History of the Region Bookreader Item Preview

Article: Intermountain Flora, Vascular Plants of the Intermountain West, U.S.A. Volume I. Geological and Botanical History of the Region, its Plant Geography and a Glossary. The Vascular Cryptogams and the Gymnosperms, by A. Cronquist, A. H. Holmgren, N. H. Holmgren, and J. L. Reveal [Review]