Category: Book Reviews

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants

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I read this book after a review of it on the Washington Native Plant Society listserve by Allyn Weaks.  This review is partly his and partly mine.  My first thought about writing this review was how to convince gardeners to purposely grow plants that would attract insects that eat them!  I decided it was worth a try if it meant that the insect damage to the plants would be minimal since the insects would attract the birds that Audubon folks love! Continue Reading →

Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants by Douglas W. Tallamy

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I read this book after a review of it on the Washington Native Plant Society listserve by Allyn Weaks.  This review is partly his and partly mine.  My first thought about writing this review was how to convince gardeners to purposely grow plants that would attract insects that eat them!  I decided it was worth a try if it meant that the insect damage to the plants would be minimal since the insects would attract the birds that Audubon folks love! Continue Reading →

Owls of the Eastern Ice

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Did you ever wonder how a conservation plan for an endangered species comes to be?  Jonathan Slaght of Minnesota became interested in the Blakiston’s fish owl when he saw his first one in 2000 while working in the Peace Corps. After completing a Master of Science project on the songbirds of the Primorye region of Russia (where North Korea, China and Russia meet “in a tangle of mountains and barbed wire”), he chose the fish owl for his PhD. Project. Continue Reading →