Artist Christopher Reiger’s “field guides” are on view at the Laguna Environmental Center in Santa Rosa until April 28.
Tag: field guides
Fall Issue 2010
Book Review: California Rocks! A Guide to Geologic Sites in the Golden State
A well-written and illustrated guide to California geology, including about a dozen spots in the Bay Area.
Fall Issue 2010
Book Review: Introduction to California’s Beaches and Coast
Chances are you’ve sat on the beach and pondered where the sand goes when the waves carry it off, or maybe what the California coast looked like a million years ago, or why it’s so darned foggy. Find the answers to these questions and more in the latest addition to the California Natural History Guides series.
Fall Issue 2010
Book Review: The Laws Pocket Guide Set: San Francisco Bay Area
Created by Bay Nature contributor John Muir Laws, this is a compact and very handy set of guides to common species of the Bay Area.
Summer Issue 2010
Jack Laws on Loving Nature
Naturalist and artist Jack Laws throws his whole body and soul into inspiring people to love, and understand, the natural world around them. His field guides are amazing, but have you seen his impersonation of a jumping spider? Not to be missed…
Fall Issue 2008
Book Review: The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus (Second Edition)
The Natural History of the UC Santa Cruz Campus (Second Edition), edited by Tonya M. Haff, Martha T. Brown, and W. Breck Tyler. Bay Tree Bookstore, 2008, 361 pages, $12.95 “UC Santa Cruz may be the best campus in the … Read more
Fall Issue 2007
Book Review: Birds of Napa County
Birds of Napa County, by Herman Heinzel, Heyday Books, 2006, 132 pages, $12.95 http://www.heydaybooks.com The common image of Napa County is a world of wine, fine cuisine, and row upon row of grapevines. But Herman Heinzel’s Birds of Napa County … Read more
Fall Issue 2007
Book Review: Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions
Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions, by Arthur M. Shapiro and Tim Manolis, UC Press, 2007, 359 pages, $18.95 http://www.ucpress.edu That butterflies are interesting comes as no surprise—they are charismatic, colorful, and often … Read more
Fall Issue 2007
Book Review: Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and other Western States
Field Guide to Plant Galls of California and Other Western States, by Ron Russo, UC Press, 2007, 400 pages, $24.95 http://www.ucpress.edu Many authors would be hard-pressed to write a guide to plant galls that is not also an industrial-strength sleeping … Read more
Fall Issue 2007
Book Review: Wildflowers of Northern California’s Wine Country and North Coast Ranges
Wildflowers of Northern California’s Wine Country and North Coast Ranges, by Reny Parker, New Creek Ranch Press, 2007, 282 pages, $24.95 http://www.renyswildflowers.com Reny Parker is passionate about wildflowers. For 17 years, she has found and photographed them in their wild … Read more
