Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Index, maps and bibliography in Volume II Includes gazetteer, bibliography, index and map of Colorado

This work, a collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge valley of Virginia, reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. The author takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she...

Comprehensive, statewide Where-To-Go directory -- Helpful, region-specific locator maps -- Statewide weather information -- Wildflower blooming charts -- Bird arrival times and migration patterns -- Full moon, meteor shower and eclipse dates -- Sunrise/sunset times -- Colorado state symbols.

The larger mammals of North America are known mostly to a few big game hunters, while the ordinary public observes them only in captivity or tamed. Very few students of ecology have ever lived with these animals in their native habitat-even fewer have written about them from an ecological viewpoint. In this respect, Adolph Murie is almost unique. This book concerns the domestic ways of the wildlife in Alaska, the grizzly bear, the wolf, the lynx,...