National Geographic - Bird Coloration california mammals and the founding of the

and the founding of the Sierra Club

is very much about people - the sort of people that populated many of the Western towns in the post-Civil War “Old West”

Describes over 100 hikes around the Lake Tahoe Basin and in the Sierra Nevada from Carson Pass area north to the Sierra Buttes

sewage disposal difficulties

and died all within a few years

National Geographic - Bird Coloration california mammals and the founding of theWhy is a cardinal red or a bluebird blue? Why do some birds have plumage that is intensely coloredis it pigment, light, gender, robust health, or some combination of all four? What roles do disease, climate, and wear and tear play in this process? What does feather display signal about sexual attraction and social status? How has color camouflage evolved? These are just a few of the fascinating questions explored here in the first non academic work on