The Natural History Of A Mountain Meadow and Its Cirque

by Chris Maser

Overview

Secreted within these covers is the story of a primeval mountain meadow and the life histories of its creatures--from earthworms tending the soil to bugs that can skate the lake, shrews that can sit on the water of the stream as it flows downhill, bats patrolling the night skies, ravens trying to outsmart one another, and the chorus of wolves as they hunt deer and elk. This book is but an infinitesimal glimpse of the beauty and wonder of Nature that is irretrievably slipping away in our increasingly competitive race to commercialize the world. In the meadow, however, we can feel our spiritual roots and momentarily reconnect with the eternal cycle of life of which we are an inseparable part.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940151421676
Publisher:	Chris Maser
Publication date:	06/18/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	438
File size:	13 MB
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About the Author

I spent over 25 years as a research scientist in natural history and ecology in alpine, agricultural, coastal, riverine, marsh, desert, forest, valley grassland, shrub steppe, subarctic environments. Trained primarily as a vertebrate zoologist, I was a research mammalogist in Nubia, Egypt, (1963-1964) with the Yale University Peabody Museum Prehistoric Expedition and a research mammalogist in Nepal (1966-1967), where I participated in a study of tick-borne diseases for the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit #3 based in Cairo, Egypt. I conducted a three-year (1970-1973) ecological survey of the Oregon Coast for the University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington. I was a research ecologist with the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management for thirteen years (1974-1987)--the last eight studying old-growth forests in western Oregon--and a landscape ecologist with the Environmental Protection Agency for one year (1990-1991).