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978-0-89587-222-7
0-89587-222-6
$18.95 paperback
7" x 9"
289 pages
color photographs, index
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After years of teaching
nature classes and workshops, Barbara Hallowell felt that people
interested in nature were looking for more than guidebooks on
identification and location. They wanted a book that would answer simple
questions about the trees, flowers, birds, and animals they saw in the
mountain environment. Using a month-by-month format that follows the
seasons, Hallowell offers 85 essays packed with interesting and useful
information.
For example, did you know:
-- That the average one-acre
garden has an estimated 50,000 dirt-eating worms?
-- That by the time a robin is 12 days old, it can consume 14 feet of
earthworms in one day?
-- That a square foot of soil can support three healthy dandelion
plants, which will produce 18,000 seeds?
-- That a tree can add height or length only at its tips?
Do you know:
-- How birds keep warm in
winter?
-- How you can tell the temperature by looking at rhododendron leaves?
-- How you can tell the difference between a bee, a wasp, and a hornet?
-- Why birds don't fall out of trees while they're sleeping?
All of this and more
information about the flora and fauna of the Southern Appalachians can
be found in Mountain Year.
about the author
Barbara Hallowell wrote the "Nature Notes" column for the
Hendersonville, North Carolina, Times-News in the 1980s. She also
taught classes in basic nature study and trees of western North Carolina
at Blue Ridge Community College. She coauthored Fern Finder, a
guidebook to native ferns, in 1981. Her book Cabin: A Mountain
Adventure has been through several printings since its publication
in 1986. She currently lives in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
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