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Wild Sierra Nevada [EPUB ebook] 
A Family Nature Guide

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Come, take a walk in the mountains with this beautiful companion for outdoor adventures.

 If you’ll be exploring the Sierra Nevada range with kids, be sure to bring along this slender, illustrated book featuring a collection of commonly found natural wonders in their mountain habitat.

  This highly visual, place-based natural history weaves together simple identification keys and whimsical, factual insights, clearly organized by trees, wildflowers, shrubs, mammals, and birds. Written by a Montessori teacher expressly to foster observation skills and a love of nature in young children, with a depth of information and full-color watercolors that will engage the whole family. 

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Table of Content

CONTENTS:

6 Trees

8 Quaking Aspen

9 Incense Cedar

10 Mountain Alder

11 Lodgepole Pine

12 Jeffrey Pine

14 Canyon Live Oak

15 Pacific Dogwood

16 Sugar Pine

17 White Fir

18 Mammals

20 Coyote

21 Chipmunk

22 Chickaree (Douglas Squirrel)

23 Black Bear

24 Western Gray Squirrel

25 Mule Deer

26 Shrubs

27 Wild Rose

28 Manzanita

29 Bitterbrush

30 Wildflowers

32 Lupine

33 Giant Red Paintbrush

34 Crimson Columbine

35 Woolly Mule’s Ears

36 Birds

38 Steller’s Jay

39 White-Headed Woodpecker

40 Northern Flicker

41 Red-Breasted Nuthatch

42 Mountain Chickadee

43 Rufous Hummingbird

44 American Robin

46 Glossary

47 Natural History Resources

48 Author’s Note

48 About the Author and Illustrator

About the author

Alex Bailey is a fine artist and scientific illustrator with a bachelor’s degree in geology and a master’s degree in environmental geochemistry. She grew up in California and spent much of her childhood visiting the Sierra Nevada. She now lives in Reno, Nevada, and draws artistic inspiration from her scientific background, her curiosity about the natural world, and her adventures hiking, rock climbing, and backcountry skiing.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 48 ● ISBN 9781951179328 ● File size 77.8 MB ● Age 17-8 years ● Publisher Yosemite Conservancy ● Published 2024 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 9350026 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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