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Author: Nathanael Pilla Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253060427 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 459
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Indiana Dunes, located on the picturesque coast of Lake Michigan, is one of the most biologically diverse parks in the US national park system. Keen hikers can spot white mayapple blooms, orange-fringed orchids, pink lady slippers, and more. Wildflowers of the Indiana Dunes National Park offers visitors a unique handbook highlighting over 160 of the common and exceptional wildflowers found along the trails of Indiana Dunes National Park and the surrounding area. This accessible field guide bypasses the dry nature of many wildflower guides. In addition to the usual scientific species names, descriptions, and bloom periods, Nathanael Pilla and Scott Namestnik offer deeper narratives—folklore surrounding the flowers, look-alikes, animals associated with the plants—that will be remembered much more easily than the length of a petal. Illustrated with over 350 color photographs, Wildflowers of the Indiana Dunes National Park will be an asset to the casual hiker of Indiana Dunes National Park, a useful tool to the experienced botanist, and a delight to anyone interested in wildflowers.
Author: Nathanael Pilla Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253060427 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 459
Book Description
Indiana Dunes, located on the picturesque coast of Lake Michigan, is one of the most biologically diverse parks in the US national park system. Keen hikers can spot white mayapple blooms, orange-fringed orchids, pink lady slippers, and more. Wildflowers of the Indiana Dunes National Park offers visitors a unique handbook highlighting over 160 of the common and exceptional wildflowers found along the trails of Indiana Dunes National Park and the surrounding area. This accessible field guide bypasses the dry nature of many wildflower guides. In addition to the usual scientific species names, descriptions, and bloom periods, Nathanael Pilla and Scott Namestnik offer deeper narratives—folklore surrounding the flowers, look-alikes, animals associated with the plants—that will be remembered much more easily than the length of a petal. Illustrated with over 350 color photographs, Wildflowers of the Indiana Dunes National Park will be an asset to the casual hiker of Indiana Dunes National Park, a useful tool to the experienced botanist, and a delight to anyone interested in wildflowers.
Author: National Park Service Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781492160618 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 100
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Populations of rare and exotic plants were mapped at Indiana Dunes and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshores during the summer of 2003. At Indiana Dunes, 127 populations of statelisted plants and 205 populations of the federally threatened Pitcher's thistle (Cirsium pitcheri) were mapped.
Author: Daniel Shepardson Publisher: ISBN: 9780988415829 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This book is a hybrid nature photography and natural history book about the Indiana Dunes:1.It combines stunning photographs of nature with text that illustrates and describes the natural history of the Indiana Dunes.2.It focuses on four unique aspects of the Indiana Dunes: Beach, dunes, woods, and wetlands. 3.It is presented as a legacy to the Indiana Dunes and as an inspiration to readers to both explore and learn about the dunes.The book is organized around the four Dunes' environments of beach, dunes, woods, and wetlands. This takes the reader on a journey through the dunes that closely follows their geological formation and evolution and plant succession. We start our journey at the beach in Chapter 1, Beach. Here lake and land meet, the starting point for the formation of dunes, an environmentally harsh and challenging place to survive. Sand transported and deposited on the beach by waves and current is then moved inland by wind, resulting in the formation of sand dunes, which are explored in Chapter 2, Dunes. Here, the formation and types of dunes are experienced. As vegetation takes root and stabilizes the dunes, forests eventually grow. In Chapter 3, Woods the role plant ecology and succession plays in the dunes is shown. Oak savannas and spring wildflowers are seen. Finally, in Chapter 4, Wetlands, the diversity and beauty of the wetlands that form between dunes and in low-lying areas is revealed. Wetlands are perhaps the most biologically diverse area of the dunes, but probably the most overlooked and underappreciated area. Taken together, the four chapters take the reader on a journey that closely follows 6,000 years of natural history.
Author: Glenda Daniel Publisher: Ohio University Press ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 196
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One of our nation's newest parks stretches along Lake Michigan across 14 miles of windswept beach between Gary and Michigan City in Northern Indiana. Dune Country explains for the first time in terms everyone can understand why the plant and animal succession and the rich variety of natural habitats there are so unique. Now Daniel has added a section on the geology of the area so that hikers will be able to identify formations that can be seen on a field trip. In this revised edition, Daniel also includes guides to the 15 miles of new trails added to the National Lake Shore, which cover a variety of terrains--the dunes along the lake and inland along rivers, old dunes and marshlands. This new edition now has more than 75 drawings as well as maps and guides to over 45 miles of hiking trails in both the National Lake Shore and Indiana Dunes State Park.
Author: Nathanael Pilla
Author: Nathanael Pilla
Author: Gerould Wilhelm
Author: Diane K. Chaddock
Author: Donald Culross Peattie
Author: National Park Service
Author: United States. National Park Service
Author: United States. National Park Service
Author: Daniel Shepardson
Author: Glenda Daniel
Author: Gerould Wilhelm