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Science 2 December 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5753, pp. 1432 - 1433
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120241
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NATURAL HISTORY:
Still Worthy of Our Land?

Joel Greenberg

Return to Wild America
A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
by Scott Weidensaul

North Point Press, New York, 2005. 422 pp. $26, C$36.50. ISBN 0-86547-688-8.

The author surveys the natural world of North America through a consideration of the gains and losses at sites Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher visited on the 1953 tour described in their classic Wild America.

The reviewer is the author of A Natural History of the Chicago Region. E-mail: joelgreenberg{at}earthlink.net

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