Part I, Trailside Conversations; Part II, Report for 1929: The Nature Trails and Trailside Museum at Bear Mountain, 1929 (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Carr, William Henry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0282816984 ISBN 13 : 9780282816988

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Part I, Trailside Conversations; Part II, Report for 1929: The Nature Trails and Trailside Museum at Bear Mountain, 1929

The Nature Trails and the Trailside Museum, maintained by the American Museum of Natural History, in cooperation with the Com missioners of the Palisade Interstate Park at Bear Mountain, New York, have been ited by more than people since 1927. Many other organizations throughout the United States have seen the value and the importance of this form of nature education and support similar projects, all with the one purpose of stimulating a more lively and lasting interest in the out-of-doors on the part of the American public.

The dwellers of cities are turning their eyes, their steps and their mental perceptions to the woods, the fields, and the streams. In ever increasing numbers they are availing themselves of the many opportuni ties that enable them to spend hours in the open. State and National Parks, City Parks, and Country Parks are all being used by the often mentioned, but little understood, general public, who have learned to journey from the crowded centers of population in search of normal recreation and fresh air. The Department of Public Education, of the American Museum, has followed in the footsteps of the people of Greater New York City in their exodus to the Open thus keeping pace with the times.

As we sit here in the Trailside Museum writing, we can look out into the large room and see many people who have come from a consider able distance to it Bear Mountain. Many fingers, tapping on the glass of the rattlesnake cage, have aroused the captive. Its tail is vibrating rapidly and the buzzing may be heard everywhere in the building. Just outside the window a cicada is singing, and its lazy drone almost duplicates the sound made by the rattler.

Seven people are gazing at the the three placid bullfrogs in their large cage.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0282816984
• ISBN 13: 9780282816988
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 46
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