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Author Burger, Joanna, author.

Title Whispers in the pines : a naturalist in the Northeast / [Joanna Burger]
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 345 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Rivergate Book Ser
Rivergate Book Ser
Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Creatures Within; Chapter 2: A Ribbon of Pines; The Albany Pine Bush; Chapter 3: The Albany Pine Bush; Chapter 4: People in the Albany Pine Bush; Chapter 5: The Butterfly Count and the Karner Blue; The Long Island Barrens; Chapter 6: People of the Long Island Barrens; Chapter 7: When Cranberries Ruled the Long Island Barrens; The New Jersey Pine Barrens; Chapter 8: Truly an Ecological Reserve; Chapter 9: The People of the New Jersey Pine Barrens; Chapter 10: A Spring Chorus; Chapter 11: Snake Communities in the Pines
Chapter 12: Where the Barrens Meet the SeaChapter 13: Landscapes for Neotropical Migrants; Chapter 14: Strange Things Happen in the Dead of Night; Chapter 15: Mammals of the Pines; Chapter 16: There Are Snakes below the Ground; Pine Barrens to the South; Chapter 17: The Pines of Central South Carolina; Chapter 18: The Florida Pines; Chapter 19: Lake Wales: The True Barrens of Florida; The Future of the Pine Barrens; Chapter 20: Looking Forward; Appendix: List of Species; Suggested Readings; Subject Index; Species Index; About the Author
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-319) and indexes
Notes English
Online resource; title from HTML table of contents page (EBSCO, viewed June 10, 2013)
Subject Natural history -- Northeastern States -- Anecdotes
Pine -- Ecology -- Northeastern States -- Anecdotes
SCIENCE.
Life Sciences / Ecology.
Natural history
Pine -- Ecology
Northeastern States
Genre/Form Anecdotes
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813539256
0813539250
0813537940
9780813537948
9780813538778
0813538777