Soldiers Delight Journal: Exploring a Globally Rare Ecosystem (Pitt Series in Nature & Natural History)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0822955504 / Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press, January 1995
Jack Wennerstrom records a four-season nature journal at the Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area outside Baltimore, MD, which is a rarely preserved prairie remnant.
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In this journal, the author describes his year-long walking adventures at the Soldiers Delight Natural Environment Area, a rare prairie remnant just seven miles northwest of Baltimore, Maryland. In his quest to make this wild place his 'natural home' throughout the course of four distinct seasons, Wennerstrom examines and contemplates rocks and minerals, plants, animals, prairies, floodplains, woodlands, lakes, ponds, pastures, mines and mills, Indian artifacts, as well as local legends and folklore.
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