Local People and Conservation in Mexico's El Vizcaíno Biosphere ReserveFootnote^*

* Field‐research support was provided by the Association of American Geographers, the American Cetacean Society–Los Angeles Chapter, the California Coastal Conservancy, the Cetacean Society, Cetacean Society International, Pro Esteros, the Southwest Wetlands Interpretative Association, the University of Texas Graduate Fellows Program and Institute of Latin American Studies, a Fulbright‐Hayes Dissertation Research Fellowship, and the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission. I thank Barbara Brower, Karl Butzer, Serge Dedina, William E. Doolittle, Diana Liverman, Sallie Marston, Beth Mitchneck, Lee Pederson, Henry Selby, and the three anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions.

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