@conference {50096,
	title = {Linking biological conservation to healthy rural communities: a case history of the Janos {\textendash} Casas Grandes Biosphere Reserve},
	booktitle = {Ecological Society of America},
	year = {2009},
	note = {Abstract $\#$ 20230},
	month = {08/2009},
	pages = {COS 103-6},
	address = {Albuquerque, NM},
	abstract = {<p>During the late 1930\&rsquo;s, Aldo Leopold witnessed a striking contrast along the narrow boundary between the United States and Mexico. He later described Mexican ecosystems as a \&ldquo;lovely picture of ecological health\&rdquo; and those same ecosystems north of the U.S. - Mexico border as \&ldquo;so badly damaged that only tourists and those ecologically blind, can look upon them without a feeling of sadness, and regret.\&rdquo; On this the hundredth centennial of Leopold\&rsquo;s arrival in the Southwest, the difference has waned but has not completely vanished. Within Mexico\&rsquo;s Janos \&ndash; Casas Grande region lays the largest black-tailed prairie dog complex within North America, reminiscent of past ecosystems just north of the border. Now a Biosphere Reserve, collaborative efforts between Mexican and U. S. scientists are reconstructing the area\&rsquo;s ecological history and identifying key ecosystem properties maintaining grasslands and essential ecosystem services.</p>
},
	keywords = {abstract, biological conservation, Casa Grandes Biosphere Reserve, ESA, Janos},
	author = {E.L. Fredrickson and G. Ceballos and List, R. and Barajas, N. and N. F. Sayre and Roacho, E.J.O. and Sierra, C.R. and G.E. Ponce and A.D. Davidson and Melgoza, A. and Jaquez, C. and G. Bezanilla}
}
