The Uncompahgre Plateau

• Bicycling the Uncompahgre Plateau by Bill Harris
• Uncompahgre: A Guide to the Uncompahgre Plateau by Muriel Marshall
• Red Hole in Time by Muriel Marshall
• Uncompahgre by Muriel Marshall
• Uncompahgre Country by Wilson Rockwell

Vegetation

• Monsen, Stephen B.; Stevens, Richard; Shaw, Nancy L. 2004.  Restoring Ranges and Wildlands,  Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-136-vol-2. Fort Collins, Co; US. Dept. of Ag., Forest Service, RMRS. 295-698.
• Range Plant Handbook by USDA/FS
• Weeds of the West by Tom D. Whitson (editor); Burril, L.; Dewey S.; Cudney D.; Nelson, B.; Lee, R.; Parker, R. - published by Western Society of Weed Science
• Colorado Flora - Western Slope. third ed. Weber, William A. and Ronald C. Wittman,. 2001University Press of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
• Colorado Natural Areas Program. 1998. Native Plant Revegetation Guide for Colorado. CNAP, Denver, CO
• North American Range Plants. Stubbendieck, James, Stephan L. Hatch, and Charles H. Butterfield. 1992. Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska
• Wild About Wildflowers. Warren, Kathy Darrow. 1998. Heel and Toe Publ., Ft. Collins, CO (Flora centered around Gunnison, but many of the same species as the UP)
• Intermountain Flora. Cronquist, Arthur, Arthur H. Holmgren, Noel H. Holmgren, James L. Reveal, and Patricia K. Holmgren. (6 volumes). New York Botanical Garden, New York.
• Trees and Shrubs of Colorado. Carter, Jack L. 1999. Johnson Books, Boulder, CO.
• Flora of the San Juans. Komarek, Susan. 1994. Kivaki Press, Durango, CO (Flora centered around Durango area, but many of the same species as UP)
• Shrubs and Trees of the Southwest Uplands. Elmore, Francis H. 1976. Southwest Parks and Monuments Assn., Tucson, AZ.

CNHP reports

• Lyon, Peggy and John Sovell. 2000. A Natural Heritage Assessment, San Miguel and Western Montrose Counties, Colorado. Colorado Natural Heritage Program, CSU, Ft. Collins, CO.
• Lyon, Peggy, Tom Stephens, Jeremy Siemers, Denise Culver, Phyllis Pineda, and Jennifer Zoerner. 1999. The Uncompahgre River Basin, A Natural Heritage Assessment. Colorado Natural Heritage Program, CSU, Ft. Collins, CO.
• Lyon, Peggy, Chris Pague, Renee Rondeau, Lonnie Renner, Charles Slater, and Camille Richard. 1996. Natural Heritage Inventory of Mesa County, Colorado. Colorado Natural Heritage Program, CSU, Ft. Collins, CO.
• Lyon, Peggy and Earl Williams. 1998. Natural Heritage Biological Survey of Delta County, Colorado. Colorado Natural Heritage Program, CSU, Ft. Collins, CO.
• Lyon, Margarette J. 1996. Thesis: A Floristic Survey of the San Miguel and Lower Dolores River Drainages, Colorado and Utah. MS Thesis, Department of Botany, Univ. of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.

The Environment

• Farming in Nature's Image: An Ecological Approach to Agriculture (Covelo, California: Island Press, 1992), Judith Soule and Jon Piper document the many environmental and social problems whose roots can be traced to modern industrialized agriculture.
• Silent Spring. Rachel Carson. (Houghton-Mifflin, Boston, 1962)
• The Closing Circle: Nature Man and Technology. Barry Commoner. (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1971)
• Our Stolen Future. Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers (New York: Penguin, 1997)
• A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. Ponting, Clive. 1991. New York: St. Martin's Press
• The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics, by S.T.A. Pickett and P.S. White (Academic Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1985).

Grazing and the role of herbivores in ecosystem health

• Andre Voisin, Grass Productivity first published in 1959 (and reprinted by Island Press, Covelo, CA, in 1988) and Better Grassland Sward, 1960, both Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd., London.
• McNaughton, S.J. 1984. "Grazing Lawns: Animals in Herds, Plant Form, and Coevolution," The American Naturalist, vol. 124, no. 6, 863-883.
• McNaughton, S.J. 1979. "Grazing as an Optimization Process: Grass-Ungulate Relationships in the Serengeti," The American Naturalist, vol. 113, no. 5, 691-703.
• Paige, Ken and Thomas Whitham. 1987. "Overcompensation in Response to Mammalian Herbivory: The Advantage of Being Eaten," American Naturalist, vol. 129, 407-416.
• Flannery, Tim. 1994. The Future Eaters, Chatswood NSW, Australia: Reed Books.
• Quaternary Extinctions, a Prehistoric Revolution, P.S. Martin and R.G. Klein (eds.), 354-403. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. Steadman.
• Rational Grazing: The Meeting of Cow and Grass, a Manual of Grass Productivity, 1962; Crosby Lockwood & Son Ltd., London.

Web sites

• www.umass.edu/landeco/research/rmlands/rmlands.html
• www.holisticmanagement.org
• www.tellurideinstitute.com
• www.stockmangrassfarmer.com
• www.chicobasinranch.com
• www.swcoloradowildflowers.com
• www.wccongress.org
• www.quiviracoalition.org

Newsletters and Magazines

• The Quivira Coalition

551 Cordova Road #423

Santa Fe, NM 87505

• Saddle House

Chico Basin Ranch

22500 Peyton Highway South

Colorado Springs, CO 80928

• The Watershed Connection

San Miguel Watershed Coalition

P.O.Box 283

Placerville, CO 81430

• Holistic Management In Practice

1010 Tijeras NW

Albuquerque, NM 87102

• The Stockman Grassfarmer

P.O. Box 2300

Ridgeland, MS 39158