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 BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP

  • Membership gives you a 15% discount on most purchases at the Borrego Desert Nature Center, our Online Desert Store, and the Birds and Blooms Garden Shop. 
  • You receive a  subscription to the bimonthly newsletter, The Sand Paper - published 5 times a year, Fall to Summer, with articles of interest to those who enjoy the desert. Includes our calendar of tours and activities.
  • You get free admission to the Annual Desert Lecture Series: – Typically held in November, January, February, March, and April.
  • Members receive Discounts on all of ABDNHA's programs, toursd and hikes. 
  • Volunteer Opportunities – Our volunteers are our lifeblood. We always have room for one more helpful volunteer!   Plus - it's fun to get involved with others in helping out!
  • Special Events for Members Only – Social events and special events, and tours.
YOUR PURCHASE MAKES A DIFFERENCE
Anza-Borrego Desert Natural History Association is a community-based 501c3 nonprofit, educational organization established in 1971 to support interpretive, educational, scientific, historic, and conservation endeavors pertaining to the Anza-Borrego Desert region. When you shop with us at ABDNHA, your purchase goes towards natural, cultural, and environmental education programs, publications, and services that instill understanding and appreciation and help protect and enhance this desert for present and future generations. 

Our Borrego Desert Nature Center store features a wide variety of books, maps, apparel, and gifts all inspired by the Anza-Borrego Desert and our love and knowledge of this region. Our products will help you plan your trip, learn more about the desert’s geology, ecology, and human history, or serve as the perfect gift for the desert enthusiast in your life. Thank you for shopping with us at ABDNHA! 
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Old Magic: Lives of the Desert Shamans
by Nicholas Clapp
Documentary filmmaker and author Nicholas Clapp presents a rare glimpse into the traditional spiritual prcactices of Southwest Indian peoples. Drawing on the lore of a dozen tribes he describes the year-to-year life of a shaman--a life of service to his people, fraught with danger--often to the edge of madness. Paperback.
Item #30146
$22.95
Strangers in a Stolen Land
by Richard Carrico
Indians of San Diego County from Prehistory to the New Deal by Richard Carrico Covers San Diego County Indian history beginning with what is known of the first inhabitants up to the period of 1935, for the Kumeyaay (Ipai/Tipai), Luiseno, Cahuilla, and Cupeno Indians, and including the Spanish, Mexican, and American periods with details, maps, and illustrations.
Item #30105

$16.95
Chiefs and Challengers
by George Harwood Phillips
Second edition, 2014. Already a classic on the history of California Indians based on the first edition in 1975, this edition brings the story into the 20th century using recent historical and anthropological scholarship and documentary evidence. Paperback.
Item #30145
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