Book ID: 96569
Peskin, Perry
The Search for Lost Habitats: 30 years of exploring for rare and threatened plants. 2006. illus. 288 p. Paper bd.
What started out as a visit to a bog near Erie, Pennsylvania, to search for the arethusa orchid, rare and in danger of extinction, ended up a quarter of a century later as thirty magazine articles concerned with the importance of saving native plants by saving their habitats. Focus on Ohio and neighboring states,also Ontario. Consists of 17 articles published by the author from 1975 to 2004.