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The Forest Unseen

a Year's Watch in Nature
Dec 28, 2017JLMason rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The author is a biology professor and a poet. Both vocations illuminate his knowledgeable and lyrical prose about the natural world in an old growth forest set in the mountains of Tennessee. Each chapter captures his observations on weekly visits through a year to the same square meter of ground. Topics are wide ranging; e.g. lichen’s ability to thrive in the winter, snail vision, the role of xylem in trees, the life cycle of ticks, the effect of “sunfleck” on growth in the forest understory, and a journey down through the forest litter. Guaranteed to delight field naturalists.