Each year over 2 million visitors to New Mexico’s Sandia Mountains enjoy more than 100 miles of trails, hiking, climbing, running, biking, skiing, and birding, as well as viewing the mountains from hang gliders and hot air balloons. This guide will assist visitors in discovering the diverse natural features of the Sandias.
Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains includes sections on ecology, including weather and fire, geology, flora (grasses, flowers, trees) and fauna (arthropods, reptiles and amphibians, birds, mammals), and recreational opportunities. Plant keys and fauna checklists add to the book’s features.
Rather than a comprehensive field guide, the selections offer the most commonly encountered species in each category, presenting information on just over 100 species of flowers, for example, among almost 500 species that can be found in the mountains.
A labor of love conceived by the Sandia Ranger District and the New Mexico Friends of the Forest (now known as Friends of the Sandia Mountains), this book is a resource no visitor to the Sandias should be without.
I love this book I love this book! Very helpful. After checking it out from the library for over 3 months I realized I needed to just buy it myself. Easy to navigate layout and they did a great job picking what to include!
Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains This title introduces the flora, fauna, geology and opportunities for recreation in this area just east of Albuquerque. This is a nice overview to what this area (much of it a Wilderness Area) has to offer outdoor enthusiasts. Bibliographies at the end of each section direct those interested in further armchair preparation, to expanded references in preparation for venturing out into this portion of The Land of Enchantment.
Very detailed; won’t find another book quite like it. Wow, what an informative and detailed book about the Sandia Mountains. I learned a ton of stuff I didn’t know about the area. The only thing I wish was different was the way the fauna section was organized. I would have liked more division so that it was easier to locate things.