by Jim Stanley
There is a lot of great information here! A good bit of it I already knew, but it was still good to review and learn some new stuff, too.
My only complaint is that during the second half of the book, he started to emphasize every point with the lessons from and legacy of Aldo Leopold. Not that the guy didn’t have interesting stuff to say and not that he didn’t say the stuff quite well, but it just surprised me. It made the book more of a “feel good” rather than a “how to” manual.
I was also surprised that his list of evil invasive
plants didn’t include my personal nemesis, Chinese Privet. And I was surprised,
and pleased, that his take on feeding wildlife and birds seems to be pretty
sensible – feeding wildlife encourages overpopulation; feeding birds is mostly
harmless since they still eat a normal diet outside of the feeder. (I think I
got that right)
Good information on brush encroachment and methods of controlling Johnson grass. I hope it works for me.
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