In the spirit of the great American natural history writer Edwin Way Teale, Pete Dunne’s Prairie Spring chronicles the unfolding of a season in a manner reminiscent of the very best American natural history authors.
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John E. Riutta
About John E. Riutta
Posts by John E. Riutta, MA, MBA, FLS, MemRES:
A Treasury of American Nature Writing
In light of the recent surge of interest in the writings of American naturalists brought about by the premiere of Ken Burns’ and Dayton Duncan’s latest documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea, the Library of America is offering the Treasury of American Nature Writing.
Photo Interlude: Woolly Bear
A familiar Autumn sight here in the Pacific Northwest, the caterpillar of the Isabella Tiger Moth, Pyrrharctia isabella, is much better known to children and adults alike as the Woolly Bear. Legend has it that the width of the orange band predicts the severity of the coming Winter – the more orange visible, the less […]
Take a Seat
If you’ve been following prominent birding bloggers such as Bill of the Birds or Bird O’ The Morning as of late, you have undoubtedly noticed that October 11th was this year’s Big Sit. However not being as much interested in listing as I once was, I decided to sit this Sit out and spend the […]