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Marsh Meadow Mountain (Natural Places of the Delaware Valley)

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Description

Stretching from the craggy reaches of the Pocono Mountains to the rolling farmlands of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, sprawling east across the Delaware River basin and New Jersey’s coastal plain Atlantic beaches—here’s a land of rich historical, cultural, and environmental diversity. Few other locales in the US have as many varied habitats, Every with its own distinctive vegetation and flora and fauna. The nature lover in the Delaware Valley can go back and forth from ocean, across barrier-beaches, salt-water and fresh-water marshes, pine barrens, deciduous woodlands and fields, to mountains, all in a couple of hours.

Marsh, Meadow, Mountain, a combination tour guide and ecological primer, is written for the thousands of people in the area with an interest in natural history or for those in the hunt for alternative recreational activities. Every chapter, written by an experienced naturalist intimately aware of one of the crucial seven major ecosystems, introduces the reader to the dynamic interrelationships in nature, the interactions between a particular habitat and its inhabitants, and its plants and flora and fauna. Over 135 locations are described including the Pocono Mountains, the Pine Barrens, Stone Harbor, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, Ridley Creek State Park, Tyler Arboretum, and Tinicum National Environmental Center, which in any season can provide fascinating viewing opportunities depending upon your interests. Every site also includes addresses, directions, trail maps, artistic drawings, and a suggested reading list.

Marsh, Meadow, Mountain conveys both a sense of fun and learning and, in the long run, will instill in the reader a special intimacy with the Delaware Valley’s precious wild places.

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