Bücher der Reihe Wormsloe Foundation Nature Book Series

A broad-based coalition of supporters came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature. The law was a first-in-the-US bill to save the marshes of a state from mining and development. This book is the history of this legislative act, as told by the leader of the coalition, Reid Harris.

Providence Canyon State Park preserves a network of massive erosion gullies allegedly caused by poor farming practices during the nineteenth century. Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies uses the unlikely story of Providence Canyon - and the 1930s contest over its origins and meaning - to recount the larger history of dramatic human-induced soil erosion across the US south.

Marine biologist Evelyn B. Sherr not only spent years doing research in coastal Georgia, she began her family there. Although Sherr's career would take her around the world, this special place stuck with her. Here she shares her deep knowledge of the remarkable environment that she, her scientist husband, and their two children explored time and again.