John Muir called it the "Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all the mountain chains I’ve ever seen." The Sierra Nevada—a single unbroken mountain range stretching north to south over four hundred miles, best understood as a single ecosystem but embracing a number of environmental communities—has been the site of human activity for millennia. From the efforts of ancient Native Americans to encourage game animals by burning brush to create meadows to the burgeoning resort and res...

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.-RumiMother Bird's baby has grown up. She knows he must discover his own path, his own song-and the meaning of love.But where do you look for love? How does love help in finding your song? What are the next steps when you don't know where to start?In The Bird Song, Willie Beesley shows readers of all ages how every bird finds their song. Thi...