Swampwalker's Journal: A Wetlands YearWinner of the John Burroughs Medal: An “admission ticket to a secret corner of the world” (Bill McKibben). Naturalist David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands. He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, vernal ponds, and the creatures who live in them as most of us are about our families and closest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks, dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges—everything that swims, flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this “intimate and wise book,” Carroll takes us on a lively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his own elegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are so important to his life and ours—and to all life on Earth (Sue Hubbell). “Carroll covers four seasons of wading through marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens. [His] eye for detail serves him well, whether he’s spying on a tiny garter snake struggling to suck down a much larger wood frog or watching a raccoon savagely digging a turtle out of its shell.” —Entertainment Weekly “In my pantheon of nature writers, David Carroll walks on water.” —Robert Michael Pyle |
Contents
2 The Marsh | 71 |
3 The Swamp | 107 |
4 The Shrub Swamp | 135 |
5 The Pond | 161 |
6 The Floodplain | 191 |
7 Bogs and Fens | 231 |
Epilogue | 261 |
Back Matter | 263 |
Back Cover | 293 |
Spine | 294 |
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alder amphibians animals aquatic backwater bank beaver become beneath black bear Blanding's turtles bluejoint bog turtles branches breeding brook bullfrogs carapace cattail channel dark deep deeper ducks earth edge egg masses emergent feet female fens fern flood floodplain foot forested wetlands green frogs growth habitat hatchling hemlock heron hibernaculum hibernation hummocks inches land landscape larvae layer leatherleaf leaves living look male marbled salamanders marsh migration mounds move muskrats nest niches numbers open water painted turtles peat peatland plants pond predators rain red maple swamp reed canary grass Reedgrass Pool riparian river roots season sedge shallow Shrub Swamp silver maple snake snapping turtles snow species sphagnum moss spotted salamanders spotted turtles spring peepers stand stems stream surface sweet gale tadpoles tail thickets trails trees tussock sedge vegetation vernal pool wade walk wet meadow wetlands willow wind winter winterberry wood frogs wood turtles
References to this book
The Strangler Fig and Other Tales: Field Notes of a Conservationist Mary A. Hood Limited preview - 2004 |