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National Audubon Society sanctuaries across the United States preserve the unique combinations of plants, climates, soils, and water that endangered birds and other animals require to survive. Their success stories include the recovery of the common and snowy egrets, wood storks, Everglade kites, puffins, and sandhill cranes, to name only a few. In this book, Frosty Anderson describes the development of fifteen NAS sanctuaries from Maine to California and from the Texas coast to North Dakota. Drawn from the newsletter "Places to Hide and Seek," which he edited during his tenure as Director/Vice President of the Wildlife Sanctuary Department of the NAS, these profiles offer a personal, often humorous look at the daily and longer-term activities involved in protecting bird habitats. Collectively, they record an era in conservation history in which ordinary people, without benefit of Ph.Ds, became stewards of the habitats in which they had lived all their lives. It's a story worth preserving, and it's entertainingly told here by the man who knows it best.
The late John M. "Frosty" Anderson retired from the National Audubon Society in 1987, after a twenty-one-year career.
Foreword by Donal C. O'Brien Jr. Introduction: Places to Hide and Seek 1. Paul J. Rainey Sanctuary, Abbeville, Louisiana 2. Green Island Sanctuary, Rio Hondo, Texas 3. Lillian Annette Rowe Sanctuary, Gibbon, Nebraska 4. Maine Coastal Islands Sanctuary, Medomak, Maine 5. Vingt-et-une Sanctuary, Smith Point, Texas 6. Emily Winthrop Miles Sanctuary, Sharon, Connecticut 7. Sydnes Island Sanctuary, Bridge City, Texas 8. Constitution Island Marsh Sanctuary, Garrison, New York 9. Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Naples, Florida 10. Lake Okeechobee Sanctuary, Okeechobee, Florida 11. Sabal Palm Grove Sanctuary, Brownsville, Texas 12. Starr Ranch Sanctuary, Trabuco Canyon, California 13. Edward Brigham Alkali Lake Sanctuary, Jamestown, North Dakota 14. Francis Beidler Forest Sanctuary, Harleyville, South Carolina 15. Tampa Bay Sanctuaries, Tampa, Florida Conclusion Index
"John M. 'Frosty' Anderson was one of the National Audubon Society's great living legends.' ... No one has done more for wildlife than this modest man with the best sense of humour ever to come down the pike." -from the Foreword
