Marcy Cottrell Houle’s, “Forest Park; Exploring Portland’s Natural Sanctuary,” published this past February by Oregon State University Press replaces her very successful and much trusted “One City’s Wilderness,” and provides all who would be interested in exploring this truly noteworthy place both a history and a guidebook for their journeys.
In 2020, Jennifer L. Bristol took her readers on a guided tour of how best to watch birds in parking lots around the U.S. state of Texas. Now she’s back with a second field guide that will lead them into an even more overlooked category of location for where productive bird watching may be practiced: cemeteries.
The duo of John Kricher and Kevin Loughlin have brought to eager naturalists a new extensively updated second edition of Prof. Kricher’s classic book “Galápagos: A Natural History,” a nearly five hundred page comprehensive and richly illustrated guidebook that both presents the natural history of the islands in a manner that is as applicable in the field as it is in the library.
The arrival of a copy of Tiffany Francis-Baker’s new book “The Dark Skies of Britain & Ireland” in my post box this past week reminded me that I have been neglectful of publishing any notice of another very useful book she wrote that saw publication this past May: her Bloomsbury Concise Foraging Guide.