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Related Writings by Pathways Walk Leaders

 

Several veteran Cape Cod Pathways walk leaders are also local authors. Here are some of the works you may wish to review or purchase:

 

  • Cape Cod at Three Miles an Hour: A Collection of Nature Writings by Lee W. Baldwin - Published by the Harwich Conservation Trust, this book is an illustrated collection of nature writings by the late Lee W. Baldwin to honor her memory and raise funds to protect open space. For more information about the Harwich Conservation Trust, visit the Web site: www.harwichconservationtrust.org.
  • Lee Baldwin book

     

  • Cape Cod Wildflowers: A Vanishing Heritage by Mario DiGregorio and Jeff Wallner - This book is "an appreciation, a guide, and a plea for protection" of indigenous wildflowers; color photographs show each Cape wildflower grouped by habitat. Cape Cod Pathways friend and regular walk leader Mario DiGregorio is a senior wetland scientist and ecologist for a Cape Cod environmental consulting firm. He is one of the Cape's most knowlegeable natural resource specialists. For more information, visit his Web site: www.mariodigregorio.com.
  • Mario DiGregorio book

     

  • The Nature of Cape Cod by Beth Schwarzman - This book is a field companion to many extraordinary open spaces on the Cape. The book includes maps and descriptions of geology, ecology, and history to enable you to decipher the natural history of 50 of Cape Cod's public lands. Beth Schwarzman is a naturalist and geologist affiliated with the U.S. Geological survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She teaches geology to teachers, students, and river runners in the Grand Canyon. She is also a regular Cape Cod Pathways walk leader.
  • Beth Schwarzman book

     

  • Rowing Forward Looking Back by Sandy Macfarlane - This book, subtitled Shellfish and the Tides of Change at the Elbow of Cape Cod, tells the story of coastal changes by the first municipal shellfish biologist in Massachusetts and the first conservation administrator for the Town of Orleans. She is past president of the New England Estuarine Research Society, past governing board member of the Estuarine Research Federation, and current member of the National Shellfisheries Association. She retired from town government in 1998 and recently founded Coastal Resource Specialists, a consulting business. This is Macfarlane's first book.
  • Sandy Macfarlane book

     

  • Special Places on Cape Cod and the Islands by Robert Finch - Locally well known nature writer Robert Finch shares 24 essays about Cape Cod's smaller conservation lands, those areas owned and managed by town conservation commissions and private conservation trusts. The essays invite readers to explore 22 local nature preserves from Bourne to Provincetown and one on each of the neighboring islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard as well.
  • Robert Finch book

     

     


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