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On the way back to Madison, they stopped to investigate a report that Leopold had received of a nesting pair of sandhill cranes in the Endeavor Marsh near Portage. Leopold estimated at the time that there were no more than twenty ...
On the way back to Madison, they stopped to investigate a report that Leopold had received of a nesting pair of sandhill cranes in the Endeavor Marsh near Portage. Leopold estimated at the time that there were no more than twenty ...
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... of lightning bugs on a sultry evening, the 'boomp, boomp, boomp" of partridge drumming, the mysterious winnowing of jacksnipe spiraling high overhead and plummeting earthward, the great long-legged sandhill cranes on the meadow.
... of lightning bugs on a sultry evening, the 'boomp, boomp, boomp" of partridge drumming, the mysterious winnowing of jacksnipe spiraling high overhead and plummeting earthward, the great long-legged sandhill cranes on the meadow.
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The marsh might have kept on producing hay and prairie chickens, deer and musk- rat, crane-music and cranberries forever" (99). Such had been John Muir's vision too, but the ambitions of industrious pioneers like his father dictated a ...
The marsh might have kept on producing hay and prairie chickens, deer and musk- rat, crane-music and cranberries forever" (99). Such had been John Muir's vision too, but the ambitions of industrious pioneers like his father dictated a ...
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Contents
| 3 | |
| 15 | |
II The Book | 89 |
III The Upshot | 155 |
IV The Impact | 219 |
Appendix | 275 |
Foreword | 281 |
Contributors | 291 |
Index | 295 |
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| Title | Companion to A Sand County Almanac: Interpretive and Critical Essays |
| Author | J. Baird Callicott |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0299112330, 9780299112332 |
| Length | 320 pages |
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