Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders

Download or read book Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders written by George Constantz and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia hosts more species of deciduous trees, salamanders, darters, and shrews than any other region of North America. Mosses, ferns, sedges, and heaths also abound. This huge variety of living things is due in large part to the highlands' antiquity and convoluted topography. Appalachia's beauty is dynamic, though, and every walk a stream of colors, wing prints in snow, spring wildflowers, and every day will reveal a new sight, sound, or smell. Even in the dead of winter I can detect a change in the tufted titmouse's call, a shifting to the serious song of spring.