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A chronicle of the changing world of nature in the mountains of central Pennsylvania. In her account of the violation of land by man, the author seeks to answer the question: does ownership give one the right to do as one pleases with the land and all the fauna on it?

Winter is the season that most tests our mettle. There are the obvious challenges of the weather-freezing rain, wind chill, deep snow, dangerous ice-but also the psychological burdens of waiting for spring and the enduring often false starts that accompany its eventual return. On the surface, perhaps, winter might seem an odd season for a nature book, but there is plenty of beauty and life in the woods if only we know where to look. The stark, white landscape sparkles in the sunshine and glows beneath the moon on crisp, clear nights; the opening up of the forest makes it easy to see long...

Marcia Bonta is a naturalist-writer who has lived on a 500-acre mountain-top farm in central Pennsylvania for twenty years. Appalachian Spring is her personal account of that glorious spectacle - the coming of the spring to the woods and fields of Appalachia."

As she did in Appalachian Spring and Appalachian Autumn, Marcia Bonta offers a day-by-day account of the natural life of one place - her 648-acre property on the westernmost ridge of the ridge-and-valley province of south central Pennsylvania.