I often worry that such publications as Ranger Rick magazine might fade away into memories just as so many other print magazines have… Fortunately, that clever little campaign-hat wearing raccoon has a few tricks up his sleeve.
Following upon the publication this past January of Peter Friend’s volume on Scotland, HarperCollins UK, has announced the next two forthcoming volumes of the unparalleled New Naturalists series.
What happens when an animal dies? How does the substance of which it is made become reincorporated back into the ecosystem in which it lived? Professor Bernd Heinrich knows – and he intends to explain it in his forthcoming book “Life Everlasting.”
“Mr. Young’s background, as well as his years of work teaching tracking skills and nature awareness to others, holds the promise that this may be a very interesting book indeed.”
“A Harvard educated biologist with the soul of a poet, Ms. Zickefoose has become beloved to countless readers, as well as National Public Radio listeners, as a keen interpreter of the natural world.”
Although there are a host of natural history organizations whose work I support, I can’t possibly afford to belong to them all; however of those to which I do belong, the one I take the most pride in for doing so much to help in conserving the natural world is the RSPB.
If a single thing can be said to be the defining element of modern birds, it would have to be feathers. And if a single author can be said to have written the definitive popular book on the subject, it would have to be Thor Hanson.
From amateur bird watchers to professional ornithologists, rock hounds to geologists, just about anyone who steps out-of-doors in pursuit of their respective nature-related activity can benefit from having a good binocular.