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DESERTPALMOASIS
Text and Photographs byJames W. Cornett
Curator of Natural SciencePalm Springs Desert Museum
REDLA[1DS INSTITUTE
©1989 James W . Cornett & the Palm Springs Desert Museum
Palm Springs Desert Museum101 Museum Drive
Palm Springs, California 92263
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproducedin any form without permission .
This publication and the research it represents were made possible by a grantfrom the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania .
The author would like to thank the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indiansand The Nature Conservancy for their assistance on this project .
Produced for the Palm Springs Desert Museum byCompanion Press
Santa Barbara, CaliforniaJane Freeburg, Publisher/Editor
Designed by Lucy BrownCopyedited by Cheryl JeffreyPrinted and bound in Korea
through Bolton Associates, San Rafael, California
ISBN 0-944197-10-8
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONEThe Desert Fan Palm Discovered
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CHAPTER TWOKnowing the Palm
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CHAPTER THREEIndians and the Fan Palm
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CHAPTER FOURThe Giant Palm Boring Beetle
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CHAPTER FIVEPalms of Fire
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An old and dyingdesert fan palm atCantu Palms, BajaCalifornia Norte .
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A granite spiny lizard, Sceloporus orcutti, on a desert fan palm trunk .
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