This is the second of Heinrich’s books that I have highlighted on this website and if you have decided that I must be a fan you would be close to correct. As I have stated in the past I find his ability to write, to explain his approach to the vicissitudes of nature and to transmit his love for nat - MORE

Winter World is a book that every aspiring ecologist should read for the sheer wonder that it portrays within God’s created array of life. God’s clever and varied approaches to solving survival problems for creatures that must live and reproduce in a fallen and frigid world is indeed a tes - MORE

Dr. E.O. Wilson makes an impassioned plea for a faith-based initiative to save the biodiversity found on this planet. He writes the book as if it were a letter to a Southern Baptist pastor; perhaps even a friend with whom he disagrees on many points but believes he can bring to agreement on others. - MORE

This is one of the more technical books that I have reviewed for this web site but it is a valuable work for anyone that desires to understand the dynamics and the role of olfaction across predator-prey relationships. Conover’s discussion of the importance of the different sensory modalities that a - MORE

Author David Owen has created an important historical narrative of the apparent demise of one of earth’s truly unique creatures.  I use “apparent demise” because Tasmania is a ruggedly beautiful and sparsely populated land that offers considerable space for a dog-sized creature to conce - MORE

This book, billed as a compendium of stories behind the treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, immediately impresses upon the reader the value of such collections. The choice of the fifty odd artifacts listed in this book, from the 21 million that perhaps could have been made (the numb - MORE

Wolves once were spread across the North American continent from coast to coast. In the United States it took only a couple hundred years for us to drive them to all but extinction in the lower forty-eight states. The last wolf had been killed in Yellowstone in 1926. It was Aldo Leopold who first - MORE

Tim Gallagher is a professional wildlife photographer who has, for the past 15 years, served as editor of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s quarterly-published journal entitled Living Bird. In this book Gallagher recounts his fascination for the ivory bill and chronicles some of his re - MORE

The design of our world is such that there is a tremendous interconnectedness of life forms and ecological disturbances ripple like waves from a rock in a pond across the ecosystems and biomes of our planet. The story told in this book is one of change and the fragility of species survival. This n - MORE

This is not merely an account of wolves but it is a treatise which blends human history with that of another species that developed alongside us. It is an amalgamation of historical facts surrounding human and wolf biology set against the backdrop of folklore across a temporal scale. Coleman attem - MORE

Science tells us that as many as 90% of all creatures that have lived have gone the way of everlasting dust and several waves of extinction have plagued planet earth over the course of its existence. What makes this wave so different is that, beyond a shadow of doubt, a single species is the culpri - MORE

This book by well-known ecologist Daniel Boykin is a collection of notes and thoughts that have traversed his mind over a storied 30 year career as an ecologist. His service to the discipline has led him through several institutions, across the world, and brought him face to face with some of the c - MORE

At the beginning of the 19th century population estimates for the Grizzly (Ursus arctos) across the United States was estimated at over 100,000 animals. At this juncture in time, this magnificent animal occupied on this continent a huge and contiguous range over the northern and western portions o - MORE

The consumption of apes, which must seem unthinkable to most of those who read this, represents only a small part of a world wide conservation problem. Countless threatened and endangered species are consumed for food and, driven by economics, are harvested illegally. Those that do not make the cu - MORE

We are a nation that is rapidly claiming its land area for human habitation. Urban “sprawl”, driven by ever increasing demand for suitable, spacious living conditions and a rapidly expanding human population, continues at an unprecedented rate. It is, in fact, pointed out by the author that it is - MORE

Tears of the Cheetah is an eye-opening testimony to the breadth of the contribution that molecular biology has made to the study of life. Author Stephen J. O’Brien has chronicled this stand-alone discipline’s value to the corporate nature of biology. Indeed, O’Brien makes application for hi - MORE