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The Wooleen Way by David Pollock
epub |eng | 2019-08-19 | Author:David Pollock

14 THE PASTORAL LANDS BOARD In 2010, I was asked to give a talk at the National Rangelands conference to be held in Bourke, New South Wales. I was pretty ...
( Category: Animal Husbandry March 14,2020 )
Naturalists in Paradise by John Hemming
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:John Hemming

* * * 1 Broadly, the rainy season in the southern hemisphere is from November to March, the exact opposite north of the equator, but irregular on the line itself. ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 14,2020 )
Dancing with Bees by Brigit Strawbridge Howard
epub |eng | | Author:Brigit Strawbridge Howard

CHAPTER 11 Seeking the Great Yellow Bumblebee, Part 1 I do so enjoy watching nature documentaries. Like millions of other viewers, I am awestruck by the exotic and diverse wildlife ...
( Category: Entomology March 11,2020 )
One More Warbler by Victor Emanuel
epub |eng | 2017-03-09 | Author:Victor Emanuel [Emanuel, Victor]

13 The Next Generation of Birders Magnificent Hummingbird CHIRICAHUA MOUNTAINS CAVE CREEK CANYON, ARIZONA In 1978, Rose Ann Rowlett was in charge of organizing a hawk watch in September outside ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides March 10,2020 )
The Making of Poetry: Coleridge, the Wordsworths and Their Year of Marvels by Adam Nicolson
epub |eng | 2019-05-29 | Author:Adam Nicolson [Nicolson, Adam]

She was all fire, and, as this ardour looked out in the very gleam of her wild eyes … I may sum up in one brief abstract the amount of ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic March 6,2020 )
The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-21 | Author:J. Drew Lanham [Lanham, J. Drew]

Cows A cow is as good as a man. Masai proverb WHEN DADDY USED TO PLAY THE SONS OF THE PIONEERS SINGING “Tumbling Tumbleweeds” and “Riders in the Sky,” the ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 6,2020 )
Forty Years a Forester by Elers Koch & Char Miller
epub |eng | | Author:Elers Koch & Char Miller

6 The Moose Creek Story Old Bob Monroe threw a couple of chunks on the campfire, which had been allowed to burn down to a bed of coals, as all ...
( Category: Forests & Forestry March 4,2020 )
What We're Fighting for Now Is Each Other by Wen Stephenson
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Wen Stephenson [Stephenson, Wen]

By the time that two-hundred-pound anchor was hauled up from the channel bottom by a salvage crane, as the sun went down behind the plant, Ken and Jay had managed ...
( Category: Environmental Science March 4,2020 )
A THOUSAND-MILE WALK TO THE GULF (Illustrated Edition) by John Muir
epub |eng | 2017-07-04 | Author:John Muir [Muir, John]

New leaves arise constantly from the center of the grand bud, while old ones break away from the outside. The splendid crowns are thus kept about the same size, perhaps ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays March 3,2020 )
Learning to Play With a Lion's Testicles by Melissa Haynes
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Melissa Haynes

15 Tree Planting “Have you ever been tree planting before?” the Drill Sergeant asks. “No but I’m willing to give it a shot.” Sounds like a relatively clean job. It ...
( Category: Volunteer Work March 2,2020 )
A Pirate of Exquisite Mind by Diana Preston
epub |eng | 2009-02-28 | Author:Diana Preston

XIV "OUR LITTLE ARK" The next morning, the owner of the house returned with some friends. He expected to find only Dampier, swinging alone in his hammock, and was astonished ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )
Strange Blooms by Jennifer Potter
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Jennifer Potter [Potter, Jennifer]

While including Gerard’s text in his revised edition of the Herball, Thomas Johnson nonetheless introduced a note of realism by declaring that barnacle geese hatched from eggs like any other ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists March 1,2020 )
The Audubon Reader by John James Audubon
epub |eng | 2020-12-31 | Author:John James Audubon [Audubon, John James]

“The amount for the present year will be much greater than any of the above. The number of flatboats and keels is beyond calculation. The number of steamboats above the ...
( Category: Bird Field Guides March 1,2020 )
Red Rag to a Bull by Jamie Blackett
epub |eng | | Author:Jamie Blackett

All across the county, the farming neighbours are hedge-cutting. This makes me cross, as we are barely out of September and the fruit that is so vital for the birds ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 29,2020 )
South African Eden by James Stevenson-Hamilton
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-30 | Author:James Stevenson-Hamilton

The author (right) with Harry Wolhuter (1902-1946) at the tree where he escaped from a lion in 1903 The railway trolley and Skukuza Rest-camp by 1940 The railway halt in ...
( Category: Environmentalists & Naturalists February 29,2020 )

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