Wildlife Sanctuaries & the Audubon Society: Places to Hide and Seek

National Audubon Society sanctuaries across the United States preserve the unique combinations of plants, climates, soils, and water that endangered birds and other animals require to survive. Their success stories include the recovery of the common and snowy egrets, wood storks, Everglade kites, puffins, and sandhill cranes, to name only a few. In this book, Frosty Anderson describes the development of fifteen NAS sanctuaries from Maine to California and from the Texas coast to North Dakota. Drawn from the newsletter Places to Hide and Seek, which he edited during his tenure as Director/Vice President of the Wildlife Sanctuary Department of the NAS, these profiles offer a personal, often humorous look at the daily and longer-term activities involved in protecting bird habitats. Collectively, they record an era in conservation history in which ordinary people, without benefit of Ph.D.'s, became stewards of the habitats in which they had lived all their lives. It's a story worth preserving, and it's entertainingly told here by the man who knows it best.

Author: John M. Frosty Anderson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 06/01/2000
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.01w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780292704992

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2000 pg. 1809

About the Author
The late John M. Frosty Anderson retired from the National Audubon Society in 1987, after a twenty-one-year career.