Description
Follow biologist Derek Madden as he explores a few of California’s Such a lot diverse ecosystems.
Such a lot ceaselessly related to wealthy farmland, bountiful orchards, spreading cities, irrigation channels, and well-traveled highways, California’s Great Central Valley and nearby Sierra Nevada Foothills have long hosted abundant, varied, and ceaselessly surprising plant and animal life.
Meet the pickleweed, which survives in intensely alkaline soil by concentrating the salty water at the tips of its branches; lentinus, a hairy-capped mushroom referred to as ”train wrecker” because it decomposes railroad ties; the river otter, which has just about one thousand hairs per square inch of skin; and hundreds of different miracles that carry on their ancient lives in a much-changed environment.
Overflowing with fanciful yet accurate illustrations, Magpies and Mayflies delves deep into the wildlife of the Central Valley and Foothills.