Cascadia field guide : art, ecology, poetry

Book

Cascadia field guide : art, ecology, poetry / edited by Elizabeth Bradfield, CMarie Fuhrman, and Derek Sheffield.

Bradfield, Elizabeth, (editor.). Fuhrman, CMarie, (editor.). Sheffield, Derek, (editor.).

Summary:

"A literary field guide of art, poetry, and natural history for 128 of the Beings that live in the thirteen bioregions that make up Cascadia, a region that ranges from southeast Alaska to northern California and from the Pacific coast to the Continental Divide"-- Provided by publisher.

"Through engaging natural history, poetry, and art, Cascadia Field Guide celebrates [more than 120 beings in the Cascadia region], exploring how they interconnect. It's a useful guide to understanding behavior, appearance, and adaptation, as well as an inspirational anthology - a book that embraces science, while appealing to the mind and heart. This is a guide to be savored and treasured, bringing an imaginative perspective to our "known" natural world"....Also featured is a diverse community of regional voices - more than 100 poets and writers, along with fourteen artists, who speak for, and with, the natural world: Colleen J. McElroy, Theodore Roethke, Rena Priest, David James Duncan, Claudia Castro Luna, Tess Gallgher, Ursula K. Le Guin, Brian Doyle, Chris Dombrowski, Kim Heacox, Claire Emery, Joe Feddersen, Raya Friday, and more." cover

Record details

ISBN: 9781680516227
ISBN: 1680516221
Physical Description: 396 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Publisher: Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books, [2023]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-390) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Cascadia cento -- Map of Cascadia -- Introduction : Welcome to Cascadia -- Tidewater glacier -- Muskeg -- Salish Sea -- Coastal urban woods -- Temperate rainforest -- Urban shore -- Pine forest -- Eastern rivers -- Shrub-steppe -- Montane -- Loowit -- Mount St. Helens -- Willamette Valley -- Outer coast -- Human