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Mountains and Marshes: Exploring the Bay Area's Natural History

Mountains and Marshes: Exploring the Bay Area's Natural History

Wallace, David Rains

Paperback

Environmental StudiesGeneral NatureNature Writing

ISBN10: 1619025965
ISBN13: 9781619025967
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Dec 15 2015
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Described as a writer in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and other self-educated seers by the San Francisco Chronicle, David Rains Wallace turns his attention to one of the most distinctive corners of California: the San Francisco Bay Area. Weaving a complex and engaging story of the Bay Area from personal, historical, and environmental threads, Wallace's exploration of the natural world takes readers on a fascinating tour through the region: from Point Reyes National Park, where an abandoned campfire and an invasion of Douglas fir trees combusted into a dangerous wildfire, to Oakland's Lake Merritt, a surprising site amid skyscrapers for some of the best local bird-watching; from the majestic Diablo Range near San Jose, where conservationists fight against land developers to preserve species like mountain lions and golden eagles, to the Golden Gate itself, the iconic bridge that--geologically speaking--leads not to gold but to serpentine. Each essay explores a different place throughout the four corners of the Bay Area, uncovering the flora and fauna that make each so extraordinary.


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