Sky Dance of the Woodcock - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sky Dance of the Woodcock write by Greg Hoch. This book was released on 2019-03. Sky Dance of the Woodcock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America. They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the leftover parts of other birds. Oddities aside, each spring they rise to great beauty with their sky dance at dusk. Greg Hoch combines natural history, land management, scientific knowledge, and personal observation to examine this little game bird. Woodcock have a complex life history and the management of their habitat is also complex. The health of this bird can be considered a key indicator of what good forests look like.
Sky Dance of the Woodcock
Sky Dance of the Woodcock - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sky Dance of the Woodcock write by Greg Hoch. This book was released on 2019-03-15. Sky Dance of the Woodcock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Woodcock are one of the oddest birds in North America. They are a shorebird that got lost and ended up in the scrubby parts of the forest, and look like they were put together with the leftover parts of other birds. Oddities aside, each spring they rise to great beauty with their sky dance at dusk. Greg Hoch combines natural history, land management, scientific knowledge, and personal observation to examine this little game bird. Woodcock have a complex life history and the management of their habitat is also complex. The health of this bird can be considered a key indicator of what good forests look like.
Woodcock
Woodcock - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Woodcock write by John Alden Knight. This book was released on 2013-03-05. Woodcock available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This antiquarian book contains a fascinating treatise on the woodcock, and includes information on its natural history, habit and habitats, how to find and hunt them, and much more. This informative and practical book is highly recommended for those with an interest in hunting woodcock, and it would also make for a great addition to collections of hunting literature. The chapters of this book include: “Opening Days”, “Characteristics and Habits”, “The Yearly Cycle”, “Migrations and Flights”, “Banding Operations”, “Fight for Survival”, “Woodcock Cover”, “Hunting Equipment”, “Dogs and Guns”, “Hunting Methods”, “The W. D. A.”, etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on ornithology.
Tending Iowa’s Land
Tending Iowa’s Land - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tending Iowa’s Land write by Cornelia F. Mutel. This book was released on 2022-12-28. Tending Iowa’s Land available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 2023 Midwest Book Awards in Nonfiction - Nature, winner In the last 200 years, Iowa’s prairies and other wildlands have been transformed into vast agricultural fields. This massive conversion has provided us with food, fiber, and fuel in abundance. But it has also robbed Iowa’s land of its native resilience and created the environmental problems that today challenge our everyday lives: polluted waters, increasing floods, loss and degradation of rich prairie topsoil, compromised natural systems, and now climate change. In a straightforward, friendly style, Iowa’s premier scientists and experts consider what has happened to our land and outline viable solutions that benefit agriculture as well as the state’s human and wild residents.
Walking Home Ground
Walking Home Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walking Home Ground write by Robert Root. This book was released on 2017-10-24. Walking Home Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When longtime author Robert Root moves to a small town in southeast Wisconsin, he gets to know his new home by walking the same terrain traveled by three Wisconsin luminaries who were deeply rooted in place—John Muir, Aldo Leopold, and August Derleth. Root walks with Muir at John Muir State Natural Area, with Leopold at the Shack, and with Derleth in Sac Prairie; closer to home, he traverses the Ice Age Trail, often guided by such figures as pioneering scientist Increase Lapham. Along the way, Root investigates the changes to the natural landscape over nearly two centuries, and he chronicles his own transition from someone on unfamiliar terrain to someone secure on his home ground.In prose that is at turns introspective and haunting, Walking Home Ground inspires us to see history’s echo all around us: the parking lot that once was forest; the city that once was glacier. "Perhaps this book is an invitation to walk home ground," Root tells us. "Perhaps, too, it’s a time capsule, a message in a bottle from someone given to looking over his shoulder even as he tries to examine the ground beneath his feet."
