The must-have field-guide for discovering the natural beauty of southern Indiana
A Guide to Natural Areas of Southern Indiana is the first comprehensive and fully illustrated guidebook for nature lovers who want to explore the wild and natural areas of southern Indiana by trail, water, or road. Featuring 95 beautiful color photos and 5 maps, it provides ideas for a lifetime of fun and exploration, and makes planning easy by including directions to the areas, offering suggestions on what to do when you arrive, and what you will find when you explore.
Environmental writer and photographer, Steven Higgs highlights each site’s unique natural characteristics and history with additional facts, anecdotes, and observations. Higgs directs readers to the very best locations in southern Indiana for bird and game watching, fishing and boating, hiking and camping, and more.
Come and explore the natural areas that represent southern Indiana wilderness at its pristine best!
Tabella dei contenuti
Foreword by James Alexander Thom
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Natural Area Etiquette
Part 1. The Land Stewards
Part 2. The Southern Indiana landscape
Part 3. Destinations
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3
Section 4
Part 4. Supplementary Materials
Species list
Glossary
Resources
Index
Circa l’autore
Steven Higgs is an award winning environmental writer and photographer and author of Eternal Vigilance: Nine Tales of Environmental Heroism in Indiana (IUP, 1996).James Alexander Thom is the acclaimed author of Follow the River; Long Knife; From Sea to Shining Sea and Panther in the Sky, for which he won the prestigious Western Writers of America Spur Award for best historic novel.
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