Bluegrass Land and Life (eBook)

Land Character, Plants, and Animals of the Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky: Past, Present, and Future

Mary E. Wharton, Roger W. Barbour (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
304 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-8679-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Inner Bluegrass Region of Kentucky is a shining jewel of geographysynonymous in the minds of many with the state of Kentucky. It is unique in many respects: the character of its land, its native vegetation, and its indigenous animal life. The way of life developed by its human inhabitants over the past two hundred years, especially its focus on the Thoroughbred horse, is also unique. The interaction of these two forcesnatural and humanis the focus for this important work.The book includes color plates of representative plant and animal species and typical habitats. The annotated lists of 474 animal and nearly 1,200 plant species describe habitat, frequency, and distribution.Bluegrass Land and Life is a book that will delight all who share an interest in the Bluegrass region's past and present and a concern for its future.

Autor

Mary E. Wharton is retired chairman of biological and earth sciences at Georgetown College. Roger W. Barbour is retired professor of zoology at the University of Kentucky. They are widely known as co-authors of A Guide to the Wildflowers and Ferns of Kentucky.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.10.2021
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 170 x 170 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Schlagworte: animals in the bluegrass region • Ash • Bluegrass • Bluegrass Plain • Bluegrass region • Bourobon County • Ecology • Elkhorn Creek • Elkhorn Lands • Fayette County nature • forest composition • grasseselm • inner bluegrass region • Kentucky bats • Kentucky geography • Kentucky River • Kentucky snakes • Licking River • Natural History • nature in Kentucky • oak • plants in the bluegrass region • Queen Anne's-lace • Salamanders • savanna-woodland • sparrows • voles • walnuts • warbler • Woodford County
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-8679-X / 081318679X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-8679-5 / 9780813186795