Born in 1859 into wealth and political power—his father was a Supreme Court justice; he served in Congress—George Shiras III’s long life spanned the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and the New Deal. James H. McCommons’s engaging... Read More

Intertwined with American history, the bison has long been a symbol of the American West. Kurt Repanshek’s "Re-Bisoning the West" traces the development of the prehistoric animal whose existence has been both threatened and protected... Read More

A wildlife photo brings to hand what rightfully belongs in the secretive haunts of untamed wilderness. The best of those photos capture an animal in its natural habitat acting true to its nature. And quite often, as voyeurs, we humans... Read More

Quantum physics recognizes that electrons behave differently when under observation—to be, or not to be a wave or a particle, depending on whether it’s being observed. And nature writing presents a similar situation because nature... Read More

"Married a Hiker, Got a Cowboy" is about a life surrounded by the beauty of nature and the people who add value to time spent outdoors. In her friendly memoir Married a Hiker, Got a Cowboy, Nancy Brown recalls her near constant travel... Read More

The short, potent essays of Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss are objects as worthy of marvel and study as the birds and other creatures they observe. Linked stories concentrate on Renkl’s family,... Read More

Daniel Pauly’s "Vanishing Fish" is an important collection of essays that evaluates the far-reaching effects of global fisheries. Assembling into one volume the numerous pieces he wrote over a twenty-plus year period, Pauly—a... Read More

One of the more startling facts Thomas Seeley, the Horace White Professor of Biology at Cornell University, cites in his comprehensive and essential "The Lives of Bees" is that “the honey bee provides nearly half of all crop... Read More