A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Piedmont [Hardcover]

Michael A. Godfrey (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 498 pages
• Publisher: Random House, Inc. (June 12, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871562685
• ISBN-13: 978-0871562685
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 4.7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,119,633 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource, November 22, 2003

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merrymousies (Waterford, VA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Sierra Club Naturalist's Guide: The Piedmont (Hardcover)

I moved to the Piedmont area a few years ago and wanted to plant our garden with native plants. That's when I stumbled upon this book. Its great. It has hand drawn pictures of birds, leaves/seeds as well as a small section of color photographs of animals (mammals, insects), plants, habitat. The chapters are as follows:
Geography
Weather & Climate
Farmlands (to include "animals of Hayfields, animals of pastures, microcommunities)
Plant Succession (what happens once a farm is no longer farmed, what types of plants grow, the different phases you're likel to see etc)
Well-drained Soil habitats:
The growing forest (and animals that live there)
The mature forest (and animals that live there)
Dry soil habitats:
The growing forest (and animals that live there)
The mature forest (and animals that live there)
Wet Soil habitats (including flowing water):
The growing forest (and animals that live there)
The mature forest (and animals that live there)

There's so much more to this book too. It covers the different types of habitats - the plants and animals that you'd find and does. Our house is on a former farm that grew up into a young woods with a stream running through so it's been fun to read thrpugh this book and see the different types of habitats and understand more about why they grew up in the way they did and what they experienced 50 years ago.

Great resource - highly recommended