Back in December of 2021, I published a review of Prof. Matt Ritter’s 2016 book “A Californian’s Guide to the Trees Among Us,” a work that admittedly had been in print for some time but having just then recently been brought to my attention I found so impressive and useful that I wanted to make certain my readers were aware of it. Little did I know at the time that Dr. Ritter’s book was scheduled for a new edition.
To quote Mr. Bruce Springsteen, “Born in the U.S.A / I was born in the U.S.A.” As such, and still residing there, I have too often found it too easy to become somewhat isolated from the rest of the world. As a country, the United States is both geographically large and culturally… well, loud might […]
Of the many natural delights to be found in urban areas, lichens present a reliable and readily available source of enquiry during even the most ordinary of strolls. However given the twenty thousand various species into which they have been divided, how can the amateur naturalist even begin to approach identification without toting along massive tomes and keys on even the shortest, most casual foray outdoors?
There are few nights of my life that I can recall when I have been more scared than I was the night I took up Kelly Brenner’s Nature Obscura. Reports of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreading throughout the world had suddenly reached fever pitch with case numbers of COVID-19 being reported as skyrocketing where only a […]