Focusing on the area where a heavily industrialized marsh complex meets the Hackensack River ecosystem, the author explores the history and environment of an urban wilderness. Line drawings introduce the animals and plants inhabiting it, providing an overview of an area dismissed as wasteland.
Focusing on the area where a heavily industrialized marsh complex meets the Hackensack River ecosystem, the author explores the history and environment of an urban wilderness. Line drawings introduce the animals and plants inhabiting it, providing an overview of an area dismissed as wasteland.
John R. Quinn is an artist-naturalist with more than forty years' experience. Born and raised in the Village of Ridgefield Park, located at the northern edge of New Jersey's Meadowlands, he has published ten books on nature and science.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction Home Ground Starting Point Home Ground Revisited Yesterday - Lenapehoking The Golden Door Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutrals Of Mosquitoes and Men Railroads A "Monstrous Visual Symbol" A Gathering of Grackles Suburban Hawkeyes The Meadowsmen Today - The View from the Turnpike The Oradell Dam and a Changing River Flight Tomorrow - Grand Plan for the Meadowlands The HEART of the Meadowlands Taking Care of Business The Seventeen-Acre Dot in the Swamplands Flowers from Garbage Teach Your Children Well Message on an Observation-Blind Wall Postscript Epilogue EXPLORING THE MEADOWLANDS By Boat Fishing On Foot Parks and Other Facilities Education BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction Home Ground Starting Point Home Ground Revisited Yesterday - Lenapehoking The Golden Door Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutrals Of Mosquitoes and Men Railroads A "Monstrous Visual Symbol" A Gathering of Grackles Suburban Hawkeyes The Meadowsmen Today - The View from the Turnpike The Oradell Dam and a Changing River Flight Tomorrow - Grand Plan for the Meadowlands The HEART of the Meadowlands Taking Care of Business The Seventeen-Acre Dot in the Swamplands Flowers from Garbage Teach Your Children Well Message on an Observation-Blind Wall Postscript Epilogue EXPLORING THE MEADOWLANDS By Boat Fishing On Foot Parks and Other Facilities Education BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX
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