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Wisconsin's Natural Communities is an invitation to discover, explore, and understand Wisconsin's richly varied natural environment, from your backyard or neighborhood park to stunning public preserves.
Part 1 of the book explains thirty-three distinct types of natural communities in Wisconsin?their characteristic trees, beetles, fish, lichens, butterflies, reptiles, mammals, wildflowers?and the effects of geology, climate, and historical events on these habitats. Part 2 describes and maps fifty natural areas on public lands that are outstanding examples of these many different natural communities: Crex Meadows, Horicon Marsh, Black River Forest, Maribel Caves, Whitefish Dunes, the Blue Hills, Avoca Prairie, the Moquah Barrens and Chequamegon Bay, the Ridges Sanctuary, Cadiz Springs, Devil's Lake, and many others.
Intended for anyone who has a love for the natural world, this book is also an excellent introduction for students. And, it provides landowners, public officials, and other stewards of our environment with the knowledge to recognize natural communities and manage them for future generations.
Randy Hoffman is a natural areas management specialist with the Bureau of Endangered Resources, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. A past president of the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, he was the first person in Wisconsin to record sightings of more than 300 species of birds in one calendar year. He lives in Waunakee, WI July 2002 First paperback edition; 464 pp. 16 color photos, 34 b/w photos, 71 maps, 58 illus. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-17080-2 Cloth $58.95 Buy
ISBN 0-299-17084-5 Paper $24.95 t
The immensely varied topography of Wisconsin provides examples of nearly every important physiographic process and topographic form. In the Driftless Area to the southwest, wind and water have weathered and carved away the countryside; along the Mississippi and other rivers are found most of the essential features of stream erosion and deposition; in the north and east glaciers have ground away the hills and left their mark on the plains and swamps.
The Physical Geography of Wisconsin , reprinted from the second edition, 1932, of the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. XXXVI (1916), offers a clear explanation of these and many other physiographical processes to the student and amateur geographer alike. The topography of the state is discussed in detail and, where necessary, related to its human geography; and the author has carefully explained and indexed all unfamiliar terms. The book is well supplied with maps, charts, and illustrations, and will be an excellent supplementary reader or guide in field trips for geography courses at all levels.
Lawrence Martin was professor of physiography and geography at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. May 1965; 636 pp. 36 illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
ISBN 0-299-03472-0 Cloth $29.95 Buy
ISBN 0-299-17084-5 Paper $23.95 Buy
This superbly organized guide to the 1,600-mile shoreline of Lake Michigan describes 182 historical sites and points of interest. Generously illustrated, it includes historical sketches, keys to recreation, and a large fold-out planner map.
Margaret Beattie Bogue is professor emerita of history and liberal studies at the University of Wisconsin?Madison. She is the author of Fishing the Great Lakes, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press, and of many other books and articles on fisheries, wetlands, and agriculture in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. April 1985; 400 pp. 250 illus., maps
ISBN 0-299-10000-6 Cloth $34.95 Buy
ISBN 0-299-10004-9 Paper $20.95 Buy
"Lapham's
maps are striking, conveying the power and majesty of
the mounds in a way that has not since been duplicated."
?Robert A. Birmingham, state archaeologist
First published in 1855 and long out of print, The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described remains invaluable as a detailed record of Wisconsin's rich archaeological heritage of mounds and mound groups, many of which were later destroyed by farming and urban growth. Lapham was among the first scientists to produce evidence that the earthworks had been built by the ancestors of modern Native Americans, not some mythical "lost race," as was believed by many white authorities of the time. Modern researchers still use Lapham's maps and descriptions to locate vestiges of sites that once existed, or to help reconstruct Wisconsin's ancient cultural landscape. This edition includes a detailed introduction by Lapham scholar Robert P. Nurre and a foreword by Wisconsin state archaeologist Robert A. Birmingham. I. A. Lapham (1811?1875) was Wisconsin's pioneer scientist and scholar and a true Renaissance man. He came to Wisconsin in 1836 to serve a chief engineer for the ill-fated Milwaukee and Rock River canal. Over the next four decades he would be the author of the first book published in the state, A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin (1844); draw and publish many of the state's earliest maps; and study the state's effigy mounds and earthworks, publishing his findings as The Antiquities of Wisconsin, as Surveyed and Described (1855). He would also collect specimens to document Wisconsin's flora and fauna, assist in establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau, and serve as Wisconsin's chief geologist. In addition to these works. Lapham was instrumental in founding the Milwaukee Female College, the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. January 2001; 184 pp. 9 1/2 x 13
ISBN 0-299-17040-3 Cloth $44.85 Buy
More mounds were built by ancient Native American societies in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America?between 15,000 and 20,000 mounds, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted into the shapes of birds, animals, and other forms, not found anywhere else in the world in such concentrations. This book, written for general readers but incorporating the most recent research, offers a comprehensive overview of these intriguing earthworks and answers the questions, Who built the mounds? When and why were they built?
The archaeological record indicates that most ancient societies in the upper Midwest built mounds of various kinds sometime between about 800 B.C. and A.D. 1200; the effigy mounds were probably built between A.D. 800 and A.D. 1200. Using evidence drawn from archaeology, ethnography, ethnohistory, the traditions and beliefs of present-day Native Americans in the Midwest, and recent research and theories of other archaeologists, Birmingham and Eisenberg present an important new interpretation of the effigy mound groups as "cosmological maps" that model ancient belief systems and social relations. It is likely that the distant ancestors of several present-day Native American groups were among the mound-building societies, in part because these groups' current clan structures and beliefs are similar to the symbolism represented in the effigy mounds.
Indian Mounds of Wisconsin includes a travel guide to sites that can be visited by the public, including many in state, county, and local parks.
"No book with this broad coverage of Wisconsin's mounds?or even mounds of the Midwest?has been published for some 150 years. This up-to-date survey will be useful for general readers and students but also will benefit professional archaeologists and scholars in related fields."?Robert L. Hall, Field Museum and University of Illinois at Chicago
Robert A. Birmingham is the state archaeologist in the Division of Historic Preservation and Leslie E. Eisenberg is a forensic anthropologist and coordinator of the Burial Sites Preservation Program, both at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. November 2000; 264 pp. 6 x 9
ISBN 0-299-16870-0 Cloth $44.85 Buy
ISBN 0-299-16874-3 Paper $18.85 Buy
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