The Pika and the Pink Mountain
The Pika and the Pink Mountain

Author: E M Inkpen

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2019-05-21

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 178901798X

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Pikas are small animals with big round ears, long whiskers and very loud whistles. Kinnikinnick is a pika who lives in the Canadian Rockies and dreams of a pink mountain with wings of ice. What can he do but set out to search for it! In his adventures he meets animal friends and foes and deals with the fatal tragedy of a friend. After spending the long winter underground in a pika community, he starts out in spring with a new friend. Then Kinnikinnick nearly drowns in a river, joins the search for a lost caribou calf and wonders if he will ever find the pink mountain. There is a happy ending! Issues of loss and tragedy as well as high adventure and friendship are dealt with, accompanied by illustrations of animals that will be both familiar and new to children (caribou, pikas, grizzly bears and marmots). Aimed at 7 - 11 year olds, this is a fictional tale that will capture the young readers’ minds as well as hearts.

Revision of the American Pikas
Revision of the American Pikas

Author: Arthur Holmes Howell

Publisher:

Published: 1924

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13:

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Discusses distribution, habitat, habits, pelage, molt, specimens, history, and nomenclature of pikas. Provides descriptions, locations, and a key for species and subspecies.

Mountains
Mountains

Author: James Fargo Balliett

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-01

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1315496992

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Always awe-inspiring, mountainous areas contain hundreds of millions of years of history, stretching back to the earliest continental landforms. This book shows how mountains are characterized by their distinctive geological, ecological, and biological conditions. Often, they are so large that they create their own weather patterns. They also store nearly one-third of the world’s freshwater—in the form of ice and snow—on their slopes. Despite their daunting size and often formidable climates, mountains are affected by growing local populations, as well as distant influences, such as air pollution and global climate change. Three detailed case studies are presented. The first shows how global warming in East Africa is harming Mount Kenya’s regional population, which relies on mountain runoff to irrigate farms for subsistence crops. The second examines the fragile ecology of the South Island Mountain in New Zealand’s Southern Alps and how development threatens the region’s endemic plant and animal species. The third discusses the impact of mountain use over time in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, where management efforts have been used to limit the growing footprint of millions of annual visitors and alpine trekkers.

Magdalena Mountain
Magdalena Mountain

Author: Robert Michael Pyle

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1640090770

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"An elegant, eccentric novel of love, loneliness, and lepidoptera . . . Worthy company for work by other naturalist/novelists: Nabokov, Matthiessen, Kingsolver." —Kirkus Reviews In Magdalena Mountain, Robert Michael Pyle's first and long–awaited novel, the award–winning naturalist proves he is as at home in an imagined landscape as he is in the natural one. At the center of this story of majesty and high mountain magic are three Magdalenas—Mary, a woman whose uncertain journey opens the book; Magdalena Mountain, shrouded in mystery and menace; and the all–black Magdalena alpine butterfly, the most elusive of several rare and beautiful species found on the mountain. And high in the Colorado Rocky Mountain wilderness, sharing the remote territory of the Erebia magdalena butterfly, lives the enigmatic Oberon, a reluctant de facto leader of the Grove, a diverse community of monks who share a devotion to nature. Converging in the same wilderness are October Carson, a beachcomber–wanderer in pursuit of the alpine butterflies he collects for museums; James Mead, a young graduate student intent upon learning the ecology of this seductive creature; and Mary Glanville, who also seeks the butterfly but can't remember why. While the mystery surrounding Mary takes a menacing turn, their shared quest pulls them deeper into the high mountain wilderness, culminating in a harrowing encounter on the stony slopes of Magdalena Mountain.

The Great Pika Pie Caper
The Great Pika Pie Caper

Author: Marlene Clapp

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2008-07-01

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 1605520128

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Atwood is a young pika with an endless hunger for both food and adventure. While scouting for tasty morsels at the fall festival, he is captured by the villainous Harry, a pie contest judge with an appetite for bad behavior. Can Nanook the bear, along with squirrel friends Findley and Baldwin, rescue Atwood before Harry bakes him into a pie? The Great Pika Pie Caper tells the story of some unlikely heroes and the lessons they learn about finding friendship in unexpected places.

Walks of Life
Walks of Life

Author: Doug Wheat

Publisher: Page Publishing Inc

Published: 2020-11-09

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 1684568854

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Walks of Life empowers the reader with the tools and inspiration to take the leap back to nature. It reaches out to everyone who might not be wholly civilized, to those whose dispositions include some cast of the romantic and adventurous, who might consider trading the sweet air of forest and desert for that of the city, the melodies of birds for sounds of traffic, the campfire for a computer screen, the stars for a ceiling. It is for those who wish to experience mountains as art, canyons as mus

Sedimentary Cover of the Craton in Canada
Sedimentary Cover of the Craton in Canada

Author: D.F. Stott

Publisher: Geological Society of America

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 713

ISBN-13: 0813754488

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The early chapters of the volume present data and interpretations of the geophysics of the craton and summarise, with sequential maps, the tectonic evolution of the craton. The main body of the text and accompanying plates and figures present the stratigraphy, structural history, and economic geology of specific sedimentary basins and regions. The volume concludes with a summary chapter in which the currently popular theories of cratonal tectonics are discussed and the unresolved questions are identified.

Nature Guide to Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks
Nature Guide to Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks

Author: Amy Grisak

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1493044680

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Glacier National Park, known as the "Crown of the Continent," is a stunningly beautiful mountain landscape adorned with glaciers and snowfields. Combined with its sister park, Waterton Lakes Park in southern Alberta, the two become Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, the first of its kind in the world. These wild places are the realm of the grizzly and the mountain goat, along with the diminutive pika and delicate, yet exceptionally hardy, wildflowers that put on a dazzling display in the short season between the months of snow. Visitors to Glacier and Waterton have a lot of questions about the native flora and fauna, and there isn’t a ranger around every corner to answer them. Nature Guide to Glacier and Waterton National Parks will be their handy resource to quickly identify over 200 animals and plants native to the parks. Conveniently sized to fit in a pocket, look inside for full-color images, detailed descriptions, useful park information, and much more as you explore the unique wildlife and nature of Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks.