The Woods Scientist

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Youth level.
A devoted nature lover and animal tracker, Sue Morse shares her knowledge and love of some of the creatures that inhabit America's woodlands.

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disappointing submitted by camelsamba on July 15, 2011, 6:42pm I was hoping this could serve as a woodland ecosystem companion recommendation to The Prairie Builders (for project at work), but alas, it is not. This isn't really about studying the woods at all. Instead, it's about a scientist who tracks and studies wildlife (mostly large cats in North America). One thing I liked is how it showed her reasoning through animal signs to determine what left them. In my experience, many people don't notice such signs until you draw their attention to them, but once they do, it expands their outlook on the world around them. I suspect she does important conservation work, but this book doesn't highlight the science the way others have.

But my 2 rating is not just due to the misleading title. Instead, it's because I found this book to be really disjointed and lacking coherence. It's also the most preachy that I've encountered in the series. If this were someone's introduction to the Scientists in the Field series, they'd probably give up! Most of the others that I've read have been quite engaging and well-written.