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A Field Guide for Our Times

Field Guide to Birds of North America cover

Now in it’s seventh edition and continuing under the authorship of Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer, with range maps by Paul Lehman and additional artwork by David Quinn, John Schmitt, and Thomas Schultz, this new National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds presents its readers with 1,023 species. Following the taxonomy and nomenclature – both common and scientific – of the American Ornithological (due to an editorial error identified as “Ornithologist’s” in the text) Society, and with a bit of a nod given to the listing areas of the American Birding Association, this is indeed the most appropriate field guide for all who want not only a field reference that can identify any bird seen in its defined geographic area, but can also go deep into the metaphorical tall grass in pursuit of identifications down to subspecies level.

A Splendid Holiday Gift Idea

Splendor Birds cover

Taking the form of a large-format plate book, The Splendor of Birds presents a collection of some of the finest ornithological artwork and photography from the National Geographic archives. Spanning a 130 year range, beginning in 1888 and moving forward chronologically up to the present, the images included present a remarkably varied assortment of photographic styles and subject focus areas, as well as some truly choice illustrations, most notably by the great Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

Science, Conservation, and National Parks

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The desires of cattle and sheep ranchers to eradicate wolves entirely. The wishes of hunters to hunt Grizzly Bears. An increasingly urbanized American human population alienated from the natural world. The natural fire cycle. Extractive industries that are constantly on the look-out for new locations to exploit for what is contained beneath their surfaces. Too many deer for the land to carry. Maintaining eco-regions at levels of sustainability. Global climate change. These are all challenges faced by America’s national parks in the twenty-first century.

The Future of Conservation in America

Future Conservation America cover

To those of us in America who love the outdoors, who relish the opportunities for discovery and recreation offered by one of the best things the Zeitgeist of the nation has ever created – the National Park System, who think the nation would be a less place ecologically, historically, and spiritually without the vast tracts of shared public lands we hold in common as a citizenry, the present time is one of great trepidation.

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