MAMMALS
of the southwest
MOUNTAINS
and
MESAS
by
GEORGE OLIN
illustrations by
EDWARD BIERLY
[Illustration: Uncaptioned]
Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
Box 1562, Globe, Arizona 85501
Copyright 1961 by the Southwestern Monuments Association. All rights
reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without
permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may
quote brief passages in a review to be printed in a magazine or
newspaper.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-11291
SBN 0-911408-32-0
Southwest Parks and Monuments Association
(formerly Southwestern Monuments Association)
First printing, 1961.
Second printing, 1971.
Third printing, 1975.
Popular series no. 9.
Printed in the United States of America
Arizona Lithographers · Tucson, Arizona
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
With this booklet, as with _Mammals of the Southwest Deserts_, we are
indebted to Dr. E. L. Cockrum, Assistant Professor of Zoology at the
University of Arizona who has checked the manuscript for accuracy. We
are also grateful to him for offering suggestions and criticisms which
have added materially to its interest.
The writer would also like to voice his appreciation to Ed Bierly whose
magnificent illustrations adorn these pages. His is a talent with which
it is a privilege to be associated.
Finally our thanks to the editor and his staff. It is not an easy task
to combine text with illustrations, nor to match space with type, yet it
has been done with feeling and precision.
Together, we hope that you will approve of our efforts. If through this
booklet you gain a better understanding of the mammals that share the
great outdoors with us, or if through it you should become aware of the
urgent necessity of preserving some of our wild creatures, (and wild
places), now before it is too late; we shall indeed be well repaid.