From Kauia to Key West, Alaska’s tundra to the Rio Grande, a rollicking year-long search for American butterflies With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America’s best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the United States could he track down in a single year? Packing little more than a butterfly net and favorite binoculars in his well-travelled 1982 Honda, Robert M. Pyle embarked on the first Butterfly Big Year—a 365-day, 88,000-mile sprint to every corner of America. Mariposa Road is part road-trip tale, part travelogue, and part memoir of people and species Pyle encountered along the way. Most of all, the book is an unprecedented, intimate view of the entrancing world of butterflies, with new attention to their habitats in a time of environmental stress and climate change. From the California coastline in company with overwintering monarchs to the far northern tundra in pursuit of mysterious sulphurs and arctics, from the zebras of the Everglades to the leafwings and bluewings of the lower Rio Grande, Pyle completed an extraordinary journey, ruled always by surprise and discovery. With exuberance, humor, and honesty, he shares his adventures—and his amazing list of species, both identified and experienced.

Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year

Science & Math

Pyle, Robert Michael

Biological Sciences

Yale University Press

Pyle’s classic account of discovery along the migration trail of monarch butterflies is part natural history, part road trip adventure Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle, a naturalist with long experience in monarch conservation, the received wisdom about the butterflies’ long journey just didn’t make sense. In the autumn of 1996 he set out to uncover the facts, to pursue the tide of “cinnamon sailors” on their long, mysterious flight. Chasing Monarchs chronicles Pyle’s 9,000-mile journey to discover firsthand the secrets of the monarchs’ annual migration. Part road trip, part outdoor adventure, and part natural history study, Pyle’s book overturns old theories and provides insights both large and small regarding monarch butterflies, their biology, and their spectacular migratory travels. Since the book’s first publication, its controversial conclusions have been fully confirmed, and monarchs are better understood than ever before. The Afterword for this volume includes not only updated information on the myriad threats to monarch butterflies, but also various efforts under way to ensure the future of the world’s most amazing butterfly migration.

Chasing Monarchs: Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

Learning about nature has never been so much fun -- or so easy. Anyone, young or old, who can hold a pencil, brush, or crayon can quickly learn to identify nature with these coloring books based on the famous Peterson Field Guides. Once you have actually identified and colored an image, its filed marks will be engraved in your memory.

Butterflies (Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books)

Roger Tory Peterson Institute

Houghton/Mifflin

A scientist who was granted a Guggenheim fellowship to investigate the Sasquatch legend recounts how he found a giant fossil footprint and learned a corroborating Native American legend about a less-evolved race

Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide

Reference

Wintergreen: Listening to the Land's Heart

The author recounts his experiences observing the land, animals, plants, and people of the Willapa Hills region of Washington State

History

Americas

The Thunder Tree: Lessons from an Urban Wildland

When people connect with nature, they do so in a specific place, and The Thunder Tree shows how that connection can change a life forever, how roots in the earth can be as important as roots in a family. For Bob Pyle, that place was the Highline Canal in Colorado. When he first discovered it as a boy in the 1950s, the canal and its surroundings were largely a wasteland, an accidental wilderness on the edge of a growing city. But as he grew up, the canal became his sanctuary, his teacher, the place where he developed a passion for the natural world. Once, a stately cottonwood along its banks literally saved his life during a freak hailstorm. By showing how the course of a life can be changed by a piece of land, Robert Michael Pyle argues eloquently that if we fail to preserve our opportunities to explore nature, we will diminish our lives and our culture immeasurably. Rich in history, poignant, and beautifully written, this is a book you will never forget.

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

This essential handbook covers where to find butterflies; how to observe and photograph them; their behavior, biology, ecology, and life histories; butterfly gardening; butterfly rearing; identification; and conservation.

Handbook for Butterfly Watchers

The quickest, most enjoyable way to learn about nature is to color your own field guide, using the Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books. Once you have colored a red-eyed vireo or a yellow-blotched sawback, you will never forget what it looks like. The Insects Field Guide Coloring Book features:- 240 of the most common and curious North American Insects- Clear, colorful descriptions of each insect- Scenes showing insects in their natural habitats

Insects (Peterson Field Guide Coloring Books)

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Ticknor & Fields

Tracing the travel route of the monarch butterfly, a lepidopterist and author of Wintergreen follows the annual mass migration of the colorful insects from their breeding grounds in British Columbia to their winter home in Mexico. Tour.

Chasing Monarchs: Migrating With the Butterflies of Passage

An ecologist reflects on the natural wonders of the Pacific Northwest as he describes the lives of plants, animals, and humans through every season of the year during his thirty years in the village of Gray's River, near the mouth of the Columbia River.

Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place

Biographies & Memoirs

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