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Many visitors view Montezuma Well from the overlook each year, but they cannot see all the activity beneath the water surface. Montezuma Well has plants and animals not found anywhere else in the world! These animals must adjust their eating habits, body features, and behavior to survive the high levels of dissolved carbon dioxide gas which is over 100 times higher than other ponds and lakes, and the intense daily threats of hungry insects and nightly feeding by swimming leeches that replace fish as top predators! THERE ARE NO FISH IN MONTEZUMA WELL! This book discusses the chronological history of Montezuma Well including its origin, occupation, and ownership through time. It also discusses the water chemistry, major plants and animals and their interactions, the food chain, the high numbers and productivity of plants and animals, and a variety of strategies used by animals to avoid being eaten in the Well! This book will supplement environmental studies for all ages and assist teachers in the classroom to inspire curious minds to further examine life in lakes and ponds, AND perhaps even visit MONTEZUMA WELL!
The mysterious cliff dwelling known as Montezuma Castle has overlooked Arizona's Verde Valley for over 900 years. Originally thought to have been built by the ancient Aztecs, later research proved it to be the handiwork of a long-vanished people named the Sinagua. They inhabited the site for over three centuries and then simply walked away to be lost in the mists of time. In this volume, the author traces the history of Montezuma Castle through its construction, abandonment, later discovery, and the diligent efforts of many individuals and organizations to restore and preserve it for future generations. In 1906, Montezuma Castle was designated one of the country's first national monuments by Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. Arizona was still a territory at that time, six years away from becoming the 48th state in the Union.
Detective Angel Cardenas polices the crime-ridden US-Mexico borderlands in five futuristic stories from the New York Times–bestselling author. A century in the future, greed flourishes on the Montezuma Strip, a string of high-tech that follows the old and frayed USA-Mexico border stretching from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico. First World technology meets Third World cheap labor, while both the rich and the poor fall into the widening chasm between them. In five stories set among the chaos, Tex-Mex cop Angel Cardenas puts his intuit ability to good use as a living lie-detector. After being blinded on the job and then having his sight restored with an optic nerve transplant, Cardenas uses his heightened intuition to get to the truth, whether it’s figuring out how two genius software designers were killed—with no visible causes of death—in “Sanctuary” or stopping a deadly heavenly vision (that could be a military-ware tactile projection) in “Our Lady of the Machine.” In three more stories—“Heartwired,” “Gagrito,” and “Hellado”—Cardenas learns that in a land where everything and everyone can be bought and sold, even justice has a price. Praise for Alan Dean Foster “A master storyteller.” —SF Site “One of the most consistently and fertile writers of science fiction and fantasy.” —The Times (London)