At the Glacier's Edge
A Natural History of Long Island from the Narrows to Montauk Point
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Product details:
- Publisher Rutgers University Press
- Date of Publication 17 May 2024
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781978838918
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages230 pages
- Size 235x156x18 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 34 color illustrations 562
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Vast salt marshes, ancient grasslands, lush forests, pristine beaches and dunes, and copious inland waters, all surrounded by a teeming sea. These are probably not the first things you imagine when you think of Long Island, but just beyond its highways and housing developments lies a stunning landscape full of diverse plant and animal life.
Combining science writing, environmental history, and first-hand accounts from a longtime resident, At the Glacier’s Edge offers a unique narrative natural history of Long Island. Betsy McCully tells the story of how the island was formed at the end of the last ice age, how its habitats evolved, and how humans in the last few hundred years have radically altered and degraded its landscape. Yet as she personally recounts the habitat losses and species declines she has witnessed over the past few decades, she describes the vital efforts that environmental activists are making to restore and reclaim this land-from replanting salt marshes, to preserving remaining grasslands and forests, to cleaning up the waters. At the Glacier’s Edge provides an in-depth look at the flora, fauna and geology that make Long Island so special.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1 Walking the Glacier’s Edge: Where the Past is Prologue
2 Shifting Sands and Walking Dunes: Our Living Shores
3 The Blue Surround: From the Shallows to the Deeps
4 Seas of Grass: Our Glorious Salt Marshes
5 Copious Waters and Multitudes of Fish
6 Grasslands at the Glacier’s Edge: Moors, Downs, and a Lost Prairie
7 Falling Trees: Our Diminishing Forests
Appendix: Common and Scientific Names of Species Mentioned
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
