Featuring a wealth of spectacular full-color plates, drawings, and photographs, an essential nature guide examines forest field marks, different kinds of forest communities, and the everchanging seasons in the forest of eastern North America. Original. (view table of contents)

Identifies over one thousand species

Product Description: A keepsake sure to be treasured by both amateur and expert, the Audubon Life-List Journal provides a special place for birders to record their memories. Entries for more than seven hundred species allow ample space to note the time, date, location, and details of each sighting...read more

Amazon.com Review: The south-central United States--Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, and Oklahoma--harbors several dozen federally administered wildlife refuges, 41 of them open to the public and profiled in this guidebook. Some, such as Kansas's Flint Hills National Wildlife Refuge, abound with diverse populations (in this case, more than 40,000 ducks and 200,000 geese that follow the Neosho River flyway) and are easily accessible to visitors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Amazon.com Review: The Okefenokee Swamp is probably best known, outside of the Deep South, as that place with a funny name where Pogo Possum and his cartoon cohorts lived. Local wildlife aficionados, however, will tell you that 438,000 acres of the swamp are protected as a federal wildlife refuge, within which alligators, bobcats, black bears, and snapping turtles thrive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The Western guide to identifying wildflowers in North America encompasses updated descriptions of a wide variety of species, distribution, and taxonomy, among other important topics, and features more than seven hundred full-color, close-up photographs of flowers in their natural habitats. 40,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Where land and water meet, we are compelled to pause -- to stand small beneath the ocean's surge, to watch quietly as the sun's last rays tease and color the horizon, to see the sands' hidden treasures unearthed by the tides, to feel the finite and the infinite in our natural world...read more

More than five hundred full-color illustrations, paintings, and maps capture 120 species of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions, accompanied by detailed information on each species anatomy, life cycle, behavior, habitat, migratory routes,More than five hundred full-color illustrations, paintings, and maps capture 120 species of whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, and sea lions, accompanied by detailed information on each species anatomy, life cycle, behavior, habitat, migratory routes, feeding habits, social organization, and identification characteristics. 50,000 first printing. feeding habits, social organization, and identification characteristics. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Celebrate the power and spectacle of nature with photographs that showcase the ever-changing yet eternal beauty of nature’s most compelling places: a savanna studded with rows of cypress trees, jagged rock formations of monumental proportions, a lush rain forest lined with cascading waterfalls, an oldgrowth forest in all its autumn glory, a mountain bearing a crown of ice and cloaked all in white...read more

Product Description: Celebrate the power and spectacle of nature with photographs that showcase the ever-changing yet eternal beauty of nature’s most compelling places: a savanna studded with rows of cypress trees, jagged rock formations of monumental proportions, a lush rain forest lined with cascading waterfalls, an old-growth forest in all its autumn glory, a mountain bearing a crown of ice and cloaked in white...read more