Book Review:: Small Green Roofs
Written by four experts in the field of green roofs, the new book Small Green Roofs: Low-Tech Options for Greener Living was promising before it was even released. It doesn’t disappoint. Full of...
View ArticleBook Review:: Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
Landscaping for Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest is an essential resource which has been mentioned and linked to countless times in various posts over time. Written by Russell Link, a wildlife...
View ArticleBook Review:: Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Plants of the Pacific Northest Coast: Washington, Oregon, British Columbia & Alaska features nearly 800 plants common to the coast of the Pacific Northwest and is one of my most often referenced...
View ArticleBook Preview:: Second Nature
I’m excited to bring you a preview of a book from an author intimately acquainted with urban wildlife habitat in Seattle. You may remember the Montlake Fill from the post Marsh Madness...
View ArticleBook Review:: Principles of Ecological Landscape Design
What if, instead of depicting nature, we allowed nature in? What if, instead of building and maintaining artistic creations, we worked to develop and manage living systems? Principles of Ecological...
View ArticleNative Plants and Wildlife Gardens Post:: What A Plant Knows
This is an excerpt from my latest post at the Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens blog. Click the link below to visit the full post. If you are looking for a good book, one that will completely alter...
View ArticleBook Review:: Ecosystem Services Come to Town
The most important objective in the management of the environment must the the maintenance of biodiversity and the habitats that support it, because without this we cannot survive. When a book has a...
View ArticleBook Review:: Ladybirds
The newly released 2nd edition of Ladybirds is number 10 in Pelagic Publishing’s Naturalist’s Handbook series. If this series sounds familiar it’s because I reviewed the Bumblebees book here and found...
View ArticleBook Review:: The Urban Bestiary
The Urban Bestiary: Encountering the Everyday Wild is the new book from author Lyanda Lynn Haupt who also wrote one of my favorite books, Crow Planet. It’s one of the books I recommend most often in...
View ArticleBook Review:: Gardening for the Birds
Whenever I see another book about landscaping or gardening for the birds come out, I’m usually dubious. My shelves are full of generic guides on how to attract birds and unsurprisingly, they’re much...
View ArticleBook Review:: Attracting Beneficial Bugs to Your Garden
As one who spends a fair amount of time crawling around my yard in search of interesting insects, I was, needless to say, excited to see a new book from Timber Press with the title Attracting...
View ArticleNature Picture Books:: Lizi Boyd
Over the last two and a half years I’ve read a staggering number of picture books to my daughter, a large percentage of them nature themed. In this new column feature I’m going to highlight some of our...
View ArticleNature Picture Books:: As The Crow Flies
All day long you’re on the go, you don’t have time to watch a crow… So begins one of my favorite picture books, As the Crow Flies, by Sheila Keenan and illustrated by Kevin Duggan. Crows are one of my...
View ArticleBook Highlights 2013
This post was originally published on Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens. This year I had the opportunity to read several excellent books ranging in topics from vampire squids to garden insects. Here...
View ArticleBook Review:: Real Gardens Grow Natives
We’re lucky to live in a region with bountiful books on creating wildlife habitat and Pacific Northwest gardeners now have one more choice to add to their bookshelves. Real Gardens Grow Natives:...
View Article365 Nature – Day 41
In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a...
View Article365 Nature – Day 54
In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a...
View Article365 Nature – Day 101
In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a...
View ArticleBook Review:: Baby Birds – An Artist Looks into the Nest
I sat at our picnic table and watched the Bewick’s Wrens going in and out of our nest box carrying sticks, grass, feather – materials for building a nest. The box was red and solid, hiding the...
View Article365 Nature – Day 112
In 2016 I’m doing a 365 Nature project. Each day of the year I will post something here about nature. It may be any format, a photo, video, audio, sketch or entry from my nature journal. It could be a...
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