Field Notes from the Northern Forest

With the same humor and personable ease that characterizes the popular weekly nature program that he coproduces on North Country Public Radio, Curt Stager draws on scientific literature and on his own observations to share his curiosity about the natural world alongside illustrations by Lake Placid naturalist Anne E. Lacy. These twenty natural science essays take us down to ground level to explore the lives of animals, plants, and fungi commonly encountered in the conifer, hardwood, and mixed wood forests of northeastern North America.

Curt Stager is a professor of biology at Paul Smith’s College of Arts and Sciences in the northern Adirondacks. He is cohost of the nationally syndicated public radio program Natural Selections and his writing has appeared in National Geographic, Science, Wild Earth, and Adirondac, among others.

Anne E. Lacy is an artist based in Lake Placid, New York. Her illustrations have appeared in many publications and books, including The Adirondack Wildguide. Her work has also been featured in exhibits of the Smithsonian Institution.