Full name: Meadowlands: A Wetlands Survival Story

Author: Thomas F. Yezerski Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Non Fiction, Science, Animals Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374349134 0374349134

The 20,000 acres of wetlands in New Jersey now known as the Meadowlands were once home to hundreds of species of plants and animals. But in the four hundred years since European explorers first arrived in the Meadowlands, people have dammed up, drained, built over, and polluted this formerly vibrant ecosystem--and all but destroyed it. Still, signs of life remain; under bridges, on the edges of parking lots, and beside train tracks. Slowly but surely, with help from activist groups, government organizations, and ordinary people, the resilient creatures of the Meadowlands are making a comeback, and the wetlands are recovering. Similar books: Actual Size by Steve Jenkins An Egg is Quiet by Dianna Hutts Aston Creature Features by Steve Jenkins Monarch Butterfly by Gail Gibbons Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan A. Shea The Beetle Book by Steve Jenkins Animals by the Numbers by Steve Jenkins A Beetle Is Shy by Dianna Hutts Aston Owls by Gail Gibbons Coral Reefs by Jason Chin Sea Bear by Lindsay Moore Animals in Winter by Henrietta Bancroft Mama Built a Little Nest by Jennifer Ward Digging Up Dinosaurs by Aliki Where Do Chicks Come From? by Amy E. Sklansky Ant Cities by Arthur Dorros Sea Otter Heroes by Patricia Newman Dinosaur Bones by Bob Barner Whose Poop Is That? by Darrin Lunde Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre