Black-footed ferret, a keystone species, release after an intense breeding program to bring the species back from the brink of extinction. Landowners who allow the ferrets to be released on their land make releases possible. As the ferrets hunt prairie dogs, releasing the ferrets help bring the grassland system back into harmony.

"The Spell of the White Sturgeon" by Jim Kjelgaard. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce...

Penguin Summer, first published in 1960, recounts the husband and wife expedition to the Falkland Islands in the 1950s to study the penguins and other birds found on these harsh, isolated islands in the south Atlantic. In addition to a description of the birds and their habits, author Eleanor Pettingill describes her and spouse Sewall Pettingill's adventures on the islands and the life of the hardy islanders, all told in an engaging, likable style....

This book forms the third part in author Edwin Way Teale's popular series of four books on The American Seasons.Following on from North With the Spring (1951), the story of a 17,000-mile journey, keeping pace with the advance of spring up the North American map, and Autumn Across America (1956), an adventurous, wandering, 20,000-mile journey from Cape Cod to California through the most colorful season of the year, Journey Into Summer takes the reader...

"One of The Independent's Best Nature Books of 2014" David Cobham is a renowned British film and television producer and director, notable for such films as The Goshawk, The Vanishing Hedgerows and Tarka the Otter. Bruce Pearson is the author and illustrator of Troubled Waters: Trailing the Albatross, An Artist's Journey; Birdscape; and An Artist on Migration. Britain is home to fifteen species of breeding birds of prey, from the hedgerow-hopping...

Quest for the Golden Cloak, first published in 1946, recounts the explorations of Alvin Seale (1871-1958), a noted explorer and natural historian, with a special interest in ichthyology (the study of fish). His adventures began early in life; as an undergraduate student in 1892 he traveled from Indiana to California by bicycle (a journey of three months) to study at Stanford University. He took sabbaticals to collect animal specimens in Alaska and...

John Muir, Naturalist, first published in 1959, is an account of the life of John Muir (1838-1914) an early advocate of nature preservation. From his childhood in Scotland and the family's move to Wisconsin, the book describes Muir's early influences and his love of nature. After a time at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and working in Indiana, Muir set off-on foot-to the Gulf of Mexico, and eventually ended in California, devoting time to the...

In Guardians of the Yosemite: A Story of the First Rangers, which was first published in 1961, John W. Bingaman provides the reader with a fascinating account of the early days of park rangers, who took charge just as the U.S. Army withdrew from Yosemite. As Dr. Carl Parcher Russell puts it so succinctly, "the precedents and practices established by [the park ranger] were all-important in shaping the protection principles which characterize the present-day...

This guide to falconry dates to mid-19th century Britain, and explains both the history and practical elements of using birds of prey to hunt wild animals. Raising and training intelligent birds of prey to hunt animals was popular in Europe from the Middle Ages onward. Over the centuries, techniques and practices were refined, with the peculiarities of the various birds used - be they peregrine falcons, goshawks, sparrow-hawks or otherwise - investigated...

With the combined talents of naturalist, writer, and artist, H. Albert Hochbaum captures the varying moods of earth and sky and spirit of flight. For many years as director of the Delta Waterfowl Research Station in Manitoba, Canada, he has observed the ways of the waterfowl. In this book he portrays and discusses the flights and habits of the birds he has watched in that vast marsh country-the wild ducks, geese, and swans of North America.