It didn’t take long for news of the forthcoming publication by Little Toller Books of Peter Marren’s “Emperors, Admirals and Chimney-Sweepers; the Naming of Butterflies and Moths” to spread across the land like a flock of migrating Monarchs.
It didn’t take long for news of the forthcoming publication by Little Toller Books of Peter Marren’s “Emperors, Admirals and Chimney-Sweepers; the Naming of Butterflies and Moths” to spread across the land like a flock of migrating Monarchs.
Peter Wohlleben’s “The Hidden Life of Trees” was a book that made a very deep and lasting impression upon the way I view forests. His “The Inner Life of Animals” gave me additional reasons to suspect that many of the ideas I’ve long held about animal cognition are indeed correct.
One of the most persistent challenges I’ve faced as a naturalist is in how to pursue my field interests while also fulfilling all my responsibilities as a husband, father, and most recently care-giving child to an elderly, dementia-afflicted parent. Then, of course, to all these as also daily added the constant and seemingly ever-increasing demands […]
In his still-growing “To the Last Smoke” series, Stephen J. Pyne has ranged across North America with volumes dedicated to the history, dynamics, and management of wild land fires from California to Florida, and from the Northern Rockies to the Southwest and places in between. For any interested in learning more about how fires behave and affect these various regions, it is difficult to imagine more authoritative works to which one can turn.