In this second, full-colour edition, revised and expanded to include the entire western United States and northern Mexico, Fulbright and Ortega-S. provide a carefully reasoned synthesis of ecological and range management principles that incorporates rangeland vegetation management and the impact of crops, livestock, predation, and population density within the context of the arid and semiarid habitats of this broad region.

TIMOTHY EDWARD FULBRIGHT is a Regents Professor and Meadows Professor in Semiarid Land Ecology at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville. J. ALFONSO ORTEGA-S. is a professor and research scientist at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville.