Acclaimed author and entomologist Howard E. Evans offers sharply-etched portraits of the remarkable creatures he encountered every day during his years living in the Rockies. In "A Naturalist’s Years in the Rocky Mountains," twenty elegant essays examine the behavior of these various creatures—from hummingbirds to bumblebees, thatcher ants to wrens, owls to woodrats to wasps—and the remarkable ways in which they have adapted to their world. The author clearly recognizes that the lives of these species are the threads that weave together the natural world, and he warns that the loss of any one species inevitably diminishes all others—including our own. Best of all, though, Howard Ensign Evans has never lost his sense of wonder, and these pages are sure to evoke a sense of delight and curiosity in the reader as well.
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Howard Ensign Evans is professor emeritus in entomology at Colorado State University, having also taught at Cornell and Harvard. He is the author of 15 books and more than 200 scientific and popular articles. He lives in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Nice little book, but preachy,
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I love virtually all of this book. It contains wonderful insights about the wildlife where I live. I learned a lot from the author's observations. However, he felt necessary to end most of the chapters with a little dirge about how horrible humans are and how doomed the planet. PLEASE! I don't need my wildlife info accompanied by a mini-lecture.
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FOR THIRTEEN YEARS my wife and I lived in a home on the edge of a granite cliff overlooking a broad panorama of hills and valleys, culminating in the Mummy Range, one of the few east-west ranges in the predominately north-south bearing Rocky Mountains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pollen wasps, house wrens, pine squirrels, rock wren, red crossbills, pine seeds, tent caterpillars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rocky Mountain, Crested Butte, Naturalist's Years, North American, South African, Squirrel Like No Other New!
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FOR THIRTEEN YEARS my wife and I lived in a home on the edge of a granite cliff overlooking a broad panorama of hills and valleys, culminating in the Mummy Range, one of the few east-west ranges in the predominately north-south bearing Rocky Mountains. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pollen wasps, house wrens, pine squirrels, rock wren, red crossbills, pine seeds, tent caterpillars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Rocky Mountain, Crested Butte, Naturalist's Years, North American, South African, Squirrel Like No Other New!
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- Rocky Mountain Mammals by David Michael Armstrong on 4 pages
- The Natural History and Behavior of North American Beewolves by Howard Ensign Evans in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Food Hoarding in Animals by Stephen B. Vander Wall on page 85, and Back Matter
- The End of Nature: Tenth Anniversary Edition by Bill McKibben on page 129, and Back Matter
- The Life of The Hummingbird by Alexander F. Skutch on page 15, and Back Matter
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