Birds of the Papago Saguaro National Monument

Excerpt from Birds of the Papago Saguaro National Monument: And the Neighboring Region Arizona A few miles east of Phoenix, Arizona, between that city and the village of Tempe, lies the Papago Saguaro National Monument, a tract of land set aside primarily to conserve certain types of desert vegetation in a region that is rapidly changing in appearance through increased cultivation of the soil. Some 80 miles from Phoenix, to the northeast, is the Tonto National Monument, containing two groups of cliff dwellings; and adjoining the latter is the Roosevelt Bird Reservation, encircling the shores of Roosevelt Lake. These several points are linked together by the scenic highway known as "the Apache Trail," a road extending between Phoenix and Globe. The purpose of the present publication is to direct attention to some of the interesting features of the bird life of this region - a section which, although attracting increasing numbers of visitors each year, has not generally been regarded as including many bird species among its attractions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.