Of all the projects I’ve seen the American Birding Association enter into over the years, their recent partnering with Scott & Nix Publishing to create a new series of state-level field guides to birds is by far, in my humble opinion at least, the most beneficial to the bird watching community.
Back when I was a schoolboy, we took a bit of time each February to remember the lives and deeds of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. That was the idea, at least; most of what we came away with however was little more than myth and triviality. Washington was scrupulously honest and had a youthful […]
It almost seems a bit redundant to mention American Canopy; Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation so soon again seeing as the presentation by the book’s author Erik Rutkow at Portland, Oregon’s Hoyt Arboretum was so recently noted here. Nevertheless, as a review copy has now arrived it would be wrong of me to break with my usual […]
Eric Rutkow, author of the recently published American Canopy; Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation, spoke to a somewhat small but very interested and appreciative audience at the Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon on July 31st. An examination of the inter-relationship between the history of the United States and the natural history of its […]