Spirit of the Siskiyous
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The Journals of a Mountain Naturalist
by Mary Paetzel
For twenty-five years, Mary Paetzel roamed the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon and Northern California, tracking rare plants and insects and recording her experiences in a series of illustrated journals. A rugged land of peaks, canyons and rushing rivers, the Siskiyous are renowned for their unusual plant life. Traversing logging roads in an old Volkswagen bus and hiking the high country, this self-taught naturalist came to know the Siskiyous as few ever have.
“Spirit of the Siskiyous” gathers the best of Mary Paetzel’s writings along with selections of her painting and drawings, many in full color. With their descriptions of wildflowers, birds, butterflies, bees and wasps, the journal entries collected here are an important natural history of the Siskiyou Mountains. Together, they also chronicle one woman’s personal journey through a little-known, but fascinating, wilderness.
It is to make the public aware of the fragile beauty of the Siskiyous and the urgent need to protect these wild places that Mary Paetzel has made her private journals - with their keen observations, fine wit and demonstrated love of the land - available in this remarkable book.
by Mary Paetzel
For twenty-five years, Mary Paetzel roamed the Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon and Northern California, tracking rare plants and insects and recording her experiences in a series of illustrated journals. A rugged land of peaks, canyons and rushing rivers, the Siskiyous are renowned for their unusual plant life. Traversing logging roads in an old Volkswagen bus and hiking the high country, this self-taught naturalist came to know the Siskiyous as few ever have.
“Spirit of the Siskiyous” gathers the best of Mary Paetzel’s writings along with selections of her painting and drawings, many in full color. With their descriptions of wildflowers, birds, butterflies, bees and wasps, the journal entries collected here are an important natural history of the Siskiyou Mountains. Together, they also chronicle one woman’s personal journey through a little-known, but fascinating, wilderness.
It is to make the public aware of the fragile beauty of the Siskiyous and the urgent need to protect these wild places that Mary Paetzel has made her private journals - with their keen observations, fine wit and demonstrated love of the land - available in this remarkable book.
