Wild New Jersey
Subtitle: nature adventures in the Garden State
By: David Wheeler ; foreword by Margaret O'Gorman
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780813549217
Subjects: Animals; Description and travel; Natural areas; Travel; Environmental conditions; Outdoor life; Natural history; Landscapes
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The rugged northwest; title: Wawayanda wilderness : a quest for black bears; title: The carnivore corridor of Stokes Forest; title: High Point's call of the wild; title: The mountain kingdom of rattlesnakes; title: pt. 2. The urban northeast; title: Volcanic cliffs over the Big Apple; title: Urban jungle on the Hudson; title: Snowy owls in the shadow of Liberty; title: The Meadowlands : nature reborn; title: Commuting by wing in New York Harbor; title: The Raritan's industrial wilderness; title: pt. 3. The Jersey Shore; title: Captain Morgan and the Sargasso Sea voyagers; title: The lost world of Jurassic Jersey; title: Great white hunter; title: The final frontier : birding the open Atlantic; title: Wild summer at the Jersey Shore; title: pt. 4. The cape and pines; title: Moby-Dick, or, Call me cetacean; title: Cape May : the neverending migration; title: Triassic meets Arctic on the Delaware Bay; title: Bald eagles on a Bayshore Bayou; title: The mysteries of the Pine Barrens : fire; title: The mysteries of the Pine Barrens : water; title: pt. 5. The heartland; title: Wild nights in suburbia; title: The croc hunter of the Diz; title: Serpent Eden in the Great Swamp; title: Night Falls on New Jersey's Bats; title: A journey in time from farm to field; title: Delaware Water Gap : a wonder of the world; title: The road to Crater Lake; title: Appendix: Nature centers.