Local author Doug Wechsler will be at the shop on Saturday, April 11th from 1 - 3 pm to discuss and sign his book What Good is a Dead Tree
About the Book
Creeaaakkkk . . . CRASH!
A mighty oak has fallen in the forest. But fifty years later, the only evidence that it was there is a dark mark on the forest floor. Where did it go?
Author and photographer Doug Wechsler invites readers to dig into this biological mystery and discover the answer to the disappearance. Trees are the basis of a lot of life in a forest―and that doesn’t stop when they die. Millions of creatures depend on dead trees for food and shelter. Following the fall of an oak tree, Wechsler explains how the tree is broken down by animals, insects, and fungi over the course of fifty years. Along the way, explore parts of a tree, insect lifecycles, and the magic of mycelia. And discover how rotten wood benefits the forest by providing essential nutrients for new trees to grow.
About the Author
Doug Wechsler has been looking beneath and into logs since he was five years old. An award-winning children’s book author, photographer and naturalist, he enthusiastically shares his love for the natural world. He worked at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, a major natural history museum, for 28 years.
Wechsler takes his inspiration from jungles, swamps, and seashores of the world as well as his own backyard in Philadelphia. He has traveled to five continents to study and photograph nature.
His previous 25 books include The Hidden Life of a Toad, Blowholes Gills and Butt-breathers: How Animals Get Their Oxygen and The Cicadas Are Coming!.