The Gulf of Mexico by Bern Keating (1973-01-11)

Bern Keating's succinct text describes the varied landscape of the Gulf shores from the Dry Tortugas off Florida to the delta of the Rio Grande and reviews the prospects for the future of many of the area's now rare onshore and offshore species. He tells how many, such as the reddish egret, the sooty tern, the whooping crane, and the key deer, have been making a comeback in places like the Everglades and the Big Bend country of Florida, the Alabama dunes, the barrier islands of Mississippi, the salt marshes of Louisiana, and the bird havens along the Texas shore. In perfect complement to the text, Dan Guravich's deeply appealing photographs make their own plea for the preservation of the exquisite creatures of the earth, sea, and sky that inhabit this ecologically important area.