Wild New Jersey Nature Adventures in the Garden State

Name: Wild New Jersey Nature Adventures in the Garden State
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ISBN: 9780813549217

ISBN-10: 0813549213

ISBN-13: 9780813549217

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Wheeler, Margaret O'Gorman

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The fastest animal on earth dive-bombs him from the skies. A young black bear bounds up a mountain trail a few yards away. Poisonous snakes swirl at his feet. A thousand bats careen past his head in a pitch-black roost. Pods of dolphins swim right past him by the scores.Who?Experienced naturalist David Wheeler.Where?InWild New Jersey, of course. Wild New Jerseyinvites readers along Wheeler's whirlwind year-long tour of the most ecologically diverse state for its size in America. Along with the expert guidance of charismatic wildlife biologists and local conservationists, he explores mountains, valleys, beaches, pine barrens, caves, rivers, marshlands, and more-breathtaking landscapes and…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.990

David C. Wheeler is Executive Dean of Business and Pro Vice-Chancellor at the University of Plymouth.



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Rugged Northwest



Wawayanda Wilderness: A Quest for Black Bears



The Carnivore Corridor of Stokes Forest



High Point's Call of the Wild



The Mountain Kingdom of Rattlesnakes



The Urban Northeast



Volcanic Cliffs over the Big Apple



Urban Jungle on the Hudson



Snowy Owls in the Shadow of Liberty



The Meadowlands: Nature Reborn



Commuting by Wing in New York Harbor



The Raritan's Industrial Wilderness



The Jersey Shore



Captain Morgan and the Sargasso Sea Voyagers



The Lost World of Jurassic Jersey



Great White Hunter



The Final Frontier: Birding the Open Atlantic



Wild Summer at the Jersey Shore



The Cape and Pines



Moby-Dick; or, Call Me Cetacean



Cape May: The Never-ending Migration



Triassic Meets Arctic on the Delaware Bay



Bald Eagles on a Bayshore Bayou



The Mysteries of the Pine Barrens: Fire



The Mysteries of the Pine Barrens: Water



The Heartland



Wild Nights in Suburbia



The Croc Hunter of the Diz



Serpent Eden in the Great Swamp



Night Falls on New Jersey's Bats



A Journey in Time from Farm to Field



Delaware Water Gap: A Wonder of the World



The Road to Crater Lake


Nature Centers in New Jersey


Suggested Reading


Index