Natural histories : stories from the Tennessee Valley
"In sixteen essays, naturalist Stephen Lyn Bales ventures far and wide among the richly diverse flora and fauna of his native Tennessee Valley. Whether describing the pivotal role the hedge plant Osage orange played in a key Civil War battle or the political firestorm that attended the discovery of a tiny fish dubbed the snail darter, Bales illuminates the complicated relationships between humans and their neighbors in the natural world."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, ©2007
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, ©2007
xviii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9781572335615, 1572335610
70830959
Winter. Carolina chickadee ; River cane ; Beaver ; American toad
Spring. Freshwater mussels ; Whip-poor-will ; Periodical cicadas ; Gray bat
Summer. Passionflower ; Darters ; Pawpaw ; Opossum
Fall. Wild turkey ; Osage orange ; Eastern sycamore ; Bald eagle