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Wild New Jersey : nature adventures in the Garden State / David Wheeler ; foreword by Margaret O'Gorman.

Title
Wild New Jersey : nature adventures in the Garden State / David Wheeler ; foreword by Margaret O'Gorman.
Author
Wheeler, David.
Publication
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rivergate Books, c2011.

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Description
xvi, 236 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 23 cm.
Subject
  • Wheeler, David > Travel > New Jersey
  • Natural history > New Jersey
  • Natural areas > New Jersey
  • Landscapes > New Jersey
  • Animals > New Jersey
  • Outdoor life > New Jersey
  • New Jersey > Environmental conditions
  • New Jersey > Description and travel
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-225) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. 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 -- pt. 3. 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 -- pt. 4. The cape and pines. Moby-Dick, or, Call me cetacean ; Cape May : the neverending 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 -- pt. 5. 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 -- Appendix: Nature centers in New Jersey.
ISBN
  • 9780813549217 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0813549213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010013764
OCLC
607320338
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library