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Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals among California's Oaks Paperback - 2013
by Marianchild, Kate
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- Title Secrets of the Oak Woodlands: Plants and Animals among California's Oaks
- Author Marianchild, Kate
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Condition New
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Heyday, Berkeley
- Date 2013-08-12
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781597142625
- ISBN 9781597142625 / 159714262X
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 6.1 x 0.9 in (20.07 x 15.49 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Geographic Orientation: California
- Topical: Ecology
- Library of Congress subjects Forest ecology - California, Northern, Forest animals - California, Northern
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013026351
- Dewey Decimal Code 577.309
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From the jacket flap
A Californian may vacation in Yosemite, Big Sur, or Death Valley, but many of us come home to an oak woodland. Yet, while common, oak woodlands are anything but ordinary. In a book rich in illustration and suffused with wonder, author Kate Marianchild combines extensive research and years of personal experience to explore some of the marvelous plants and animals that the oak woodlands nurture. Acorn woodpeckers unite in marriages of up to ten mates and raise their young cooperatively. Ground squirrels roll in rattlesnake skins to hide their scent from hungry snakes. Manzanita's rust-colored, paper-thin bark peels away in time for the summer solstice, exposing sinuous contours that are cool to the touch even on the hottest day. Conveying up-to-the-minute scientific findings with a storyteller's skill, Marianchild introduces us to a host of remarkable creatures in a world close by, a world that "rustles, hums, and sings with the sounds of wild things."
