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Ranger Rick Mobile Apps for Children {Comments Off}

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.

Forthcoming New Naturalists Volumes for 2012 {Comments Off}

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.

Forthcoming Title: Life Everlasting

Forthcoming Title: Life Everlasting {Comments Off}

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.”

Forthcoming Title: What the Robin Knows {2}

“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.”

Forthcoming Title: The Bluebird Effect

Forthcoming Title: The Bluebird Effect {1}

“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.”

Holiday Gift Idea #10: RSPB Membership {Comments Off}

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.

Holiday Gift Idea #4: Feathers {Comments Off}

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.

Holiday Gift Idea #3: Kowa YF Binoculars {Comments Off}

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.