There is a new
book available by one of our active volunteers and Friends of Crex member,
Max Malmquist, about the history of the North Branch area. It is HUGE!
4 volumes and extremely in depth, including information about how Crex
Meadows influenced that area.
Volume 1 is $27
and the other three volumes are $25 each. More information about the
books can be found
here.
The book series
is currently available in a few locations in and around North Branch, but if
you are interested in purchasing a copy and cannot get to one of the stores,
contact us and we will get you in touch with
Max.
 We Are Guests
Reflections
From Crex Meadows
by Ted Berkland
Brief summary from the
forward of We Are Guests.
In verse and rhyme,
Ted Berkland writes with a deep spiritual sense and perception.
His poems trace the dramatic changes humans have wrought on the vast
glacial marshes named Crex Meadows.
Berkland’s poems sketch that poignant history and points out that
man’s way may not be nature’s way. Sharp powers of observation an inquiring
mind are compressed in the books short verses.
Harold
C. Jordahl, Jr. Emeritus Professor
Former chair, Wisconsin
Natural Resources Board
We are Guests
Pine trees and prairie
grass,
wood lilies and
lupine,
bird-foot violets,
spiderwort,
columbine with your
red crowned crests,
we are your guests.
Canada geese and
sharp-tail grouse,
red-winged blackbirds,
great blue herons,
sandhill cranes and
cormorants,
mallards and
mergansers,
osprey and eagles high
in your nests,
we are your guests.
Great Creator Spirit
in whose strong hands
this world of beauty rests,
we are your guests.
Ted’s books are available at the
Crex Meadows Visitor Center. If interested you may contact Crex at
info@crexmeadows.org
The books are $10.00 plus $2.00 postage and handling. Or stop
in to the gift shop on your next visit to Crex Meadows. All
proceeds go towards the Friends of Crex.
“At Crex Meadows, Ted Berkland has realized his “love,
respect, and admiration for land.” (Nina Leopold Bradley 1948)
A Sand County Almanac
by Aldo Leopold
"First published in 1949, Aldo
Leopold's A Sand County Almanac is now an established environmental classic.
Beginning with a beautifully written description of the seasonal changes in
nature and their effect on the delicate ecological balance, the book
proceeds to examples of man's destructive interference and concludes with a
plea for a Wilderness esthetic that is even more urgent and timely today
than ever before." - from the inside cover of A Sand County Almanac
Excerpts from A Sand County
Almanac
"There are some who can live
without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the
delights and dilemmas of one who cannot.
Like winds and sunsets, wild
things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now
we face the question whether a still higher standard of living is worth its
cost in things natural, wild, and free. For us in the minority, the
opportunity to see geese is more important than television, and the chance
to find a pasque-flower is a right as inalienable as free speech." - from
the Foreword to Sand County Almanac
"The indigo bunting on the hill
asserts title to the dead oak limb left by the 1936 drouth, and to divers
near-by bugs and bushes. He does not claim, but I think implies, to
the right to out-blue all bluebirds, and all spiderworts that has turned
their faces to the dawn." - from the chapter entitled "July"
This book is available at the
Crex Meadows Visitor Center. If interested you may contact Crex at
info@crexmeadows.org or
stop in to the gift shop on your next visit to Crex Meadows. All
proceeds help fund the wildlife education programs at Crex.
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