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Butterflies of Pennsylvania

Butterflies of Pennsylvania

A Field Guide

Featuring over 900 color illustrations, Butterflies of Pennsylvania is the most comprehensive, user-friendly field guide to date of all of the species of butterflies and skippers ever recorded in Pennsylvania. Information on distinguishing marks, traits, wingspan, habitat, larval host plants, and handy facts offer assistance for field identification. County-by-county maps show where each species has been recorded, and graphs detail when they are present and most likely to be seen.

Wars in the Woods

Wars in the Woods

The Rise of Ecological Forestry in America

Examines the conflicts that have developed over the preservation of forests in America, and how government agencies and advocacy groups have influenced the management of forests and their resources for more than a century.

Appalachian Winter

Appalachian Winter

This is the fourth (and final) volume in Marcia Bonta’s seasonal musings on the natural world surrounding her 650-acre home in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. It explores the often hidden beauty and outdoor life of North American winters.

Appalachian Summer

Appalachian Summer

As she did in Appalachian Spring and Appalachian Autumn, Bonta offers a day-by-day account of the natural life of one place—her 648-acre property in south central Pennsylvania. In her minute observations of one place, one season, Marcia Bonta lays bare the connections we retain to the natural world, which is, finally, our own.

The Butterflies Of West Virginia and their Caterpillars

The Butterflies Of West Virginia and their Caterpillars

Describes 128 species of butterflies found in the state, along with their caterpillars and pupae. Each species account provides a description and information on distribution, habitat, life history, nectar sources, and larval host plants. Hundreds of color illustrations, as well as detailed drawings and maps. Written for scientists and general enthusiasts alike.

Soldiers Delight Journal

Soldiers Delight Journal

Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem

Jack Wennerstrom records a four-season nature journal at the Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area outside Baltimore, MD, which is a rarely preserved prairie remnant.

Appalachian Autumn

Appalachian Autumn

Like her popular Appalachian Spring, Marcia Bonta’s new book offers a day-by-day account of the changing world of nature in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. This time she chronicles the beauties of the autumn months as she walks the familiar roads and trails of her 500-acre mountain-top farm, noting the minute transformations of the season as well as the more dramatic ones.

Appalachian Spring

Appalachian Spring

A Personal Account of the Glorious Spectacle of Spring Coming to the Woods and Fields of Appalachia

Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvania

Guide to the Mammals of Pennsylvania

An Indispensable Field Guide for Professional and Amateur Naturalists With a newly redesigned cover. This extensive, portable guidebook contains behavior and ecological characteristics, Pennsylvania and North American range maps, and photographs of the sixty-three different species of wild mammals that populate Pennsylvania’s hills and valleys.

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