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DESERT FOOD PLANTS and more / the work of
Richard Stephen Felger 1934-2020

NOW AVAILABLE!

The Botanical Odyssey of Richard S. Felger

edited by Benjamin Theodore Wilder, Bill Broyles, & Thomas Bowen

published by University of Arizona Press, 2026:

https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/the-botanical-odyssey-of-richard-s-felger

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Remembering Richard Felger, 1934-2020: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy: Pax et Prosopis
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THE DESERT EDGE: Flora of

the Guaymas–Yaqui Region

of Sonora, Mexico

by Richard Stephen Felger,

Susan Davis Carnahan, & José Jesús Sánchez-Escalante

Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) Press — purchase print version or digital-on-demand

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PLANTS & ANIMALS

IN THE YOEME WORLD: Ethnoecology of the Yaquis

in Sonora and Arizona

by Richard Stephen Felger

& Felipe Silvestre Molina

Foreword by Exequiel Ezcurra

Desert Institute Press, 2024

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OTHER RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Field Guide to the

TREES OF THE GILA REGION

OF NEW MEXICO

by Richard Stephen Felger,

James Thomas Verrier, Kelly Kindscher, & Xavier Raj Herbst Khera

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University of New Mexico Press

PHOTO:

Richard near Tastiota

on the coast of Sonora, Mexico, with the rare Tiburon barrel cactus (Ferocactus tiburonensis) and senita (Lophocereus schottii)

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