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Cyprinodon
diabolis, or Devils Hole pupfish: a
one-inch-long, iridescent blue fish whose
only natural habitat is a
ten-by-sixty-foot pool near Death Valley,
on the Nevada-California border. The
rarest fish in the world.
As concern for the future of biodiversity
mounts, Devils Hole Pupfish asks how a
tiny blue fish—confined to a single,
narrow aquifer on the edge of Death Valley
National Park in Nevada’s Amargosa
Desert—has managed to survive despite
numerous grave threats.
For decades, the pupfish has been the
subject of heated debate between
environmentalists intent on protecting it
from extinction and ranchers and
developers in the region who need the
aquifer’s water to support their
livelihoods. Drawing on archival detective
work, interviews, and a deep familiarity
with the landscape of the surrounding
Amargosa Desert, author Kevin C. Brown
shows how the seemingly isolated Devils
Hole pupfish has persisted through its
relationships with some of the West’s most
important institutions: federal land
management policy, western water law,
ecological sciences, and the
administration of endangered-species
legislation.
The history of this entanglement between
people and the pupfish makes its story
unique. The species was singled out for
protection by the National Park Service,
made one of the first “listed” endangered
species, and became one of the first
controversial animals of the modern
environmental era, with one bumper sticker
circulating in Nevada in the early 1970s
reading “Save the Pupfish,” while another
read “Kill the Pupfish.”
But the story of the pupfish should be
considered for more than its peculiarity.
Moreover, Devils Hole Pupfish
explores the pupfish’s journey through
modern American history and offers lessons
for anyone looking to better understand
the politics of water in southern Nevada,
the operation of the Endangered Species
Act, or the science surrounding desert
ecosystems.
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