Refuge : an unnatural history of family and place
The author describes her Mormon upbringing, juxtaposing these reminiscences with discussions of the flooding of a wildlife bird sanctuary and its effect on that ecosystem, and her family's legacy of cancer
Print Book, English, 1992
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Vintage Books, New York, 1992
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xvi, 304 pages : map ; 21 cm
9780679740247, 0679740244
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Burrowing Owls: lake level: 4204.70'
Whimbrels: lake level: 4203.25'
Snowy Egrets: lake level: 4204.05'
Barn Swallows: lake level: 4204.75'
Peregrine Falcon: lake level: 4205.40'
Wilson's Phalarope: lake level: 4206.15'
California Gulls: lake level: 4207.75'
Ravens: lake level: 4209.10'
Pink Flamingos: lake level: 4208.00'
Snow Buntings: lake level: 4209.15'
White Pelicans: lake level: 4209.90'
Yellow-Headed Blackbirds: lake level: 4209.55'
Redheads: lake level: 4208.50'
Killdeer: lake level: 4208.40'
Whistling Swan: lake level: 4208.35'
Great Horned Owl: lake level: 4208.45'
Roadrunner: lake level: 4210.90'
Magpies: lake level: 4211.30'
Long-Billed Curlews: lake level: 4211.65'
Western Tanager: lake level: 4211.85'
Gray Jays: lake level: 4211.40'
Meadowlarks: lake level: 4211.00'
Storm Petrel: lake level: 4210.85'
Greater Yellowlegs: lake level: 4210.80'
Canada Geese: lake level: 4210.95'
Bald Eagles: lake level: 4211.10'
Red-Shafted Flicker: lake level: 4211.15'
Dark-Eyed Junco: lake level: 4211.20'
Sanderlings: lake level: 4211.35'
Birds-of-Paradise: lake level: 4211.65'
Pintails, Mallards, and Teals: lake level: 4211.85'
Bitterns: lake level: 4210.20'
Snowy Plovers: lake level: 4209.10'
Great Blue Heron: lake level: 4207.05'
Screech Owls: lake level: 4206.00'
Avocets and Stilts: lake level: 4204.70'
The Clan of One-Breasted Women: Epilogue
Birds Associated with Great Salt Lake
Originally published: New York : Pantheon Books, 1991