"Guide to 65 natural areas Lake Erie, Allegheny National Forest, Pittsburgh region, Laurel Highlands This companion for ecotourists points out western Pennsylvania's best natural attractions and explains why they're special. Birding spots, wildflower preserves, scenic overlooks, geological sites, family recreation areas, forests, rivers, and winding trails are all fully explored. These are areas where visitors can enjoy hiking, biking, s ..."
Ohio(1st Edition) A Bicentennial Portrait by StephenOstrander, Ian Adams Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Browntrout Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-7631-5590-2, ISBN: 0-7631-5590-X
"Ohio's 200th birthday is here and so is Ian Adams' masterful photographic exposition, "Ohio: A Bicentennial Portrait." Sole photographer of six books and two long-running calendar series on Ohio, Adams contributed the winning image picked by the US Postal Service for the official 2003 Ohio Statehood Stamp. With over 300 lush photographs that he has selected for this composite portrait of his home state, Ohio's premier landscape photogra ..."
The Ohio Nature Almanac An Encyclopedia of Indispensable Information About the Natural Buckeye Universe by StephenOstrander, Orange Frazer Press Paperback, 550 Pages, Published 2000 by Orange Frazer Pr Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-882203-53-6, ISBN: 1-882203-53-4
"The Ohio Nature Almanac is the first and most complete volume on the Buckeye State’s natural history and outdoor recreation sites. Think of this landmark encyclopedia as your personal laptop for learning and leisure. It took 568 pages to describe 400 million years of accumulated natural wealth, and the places comprising the state’s panoramic, outdoor playground. It includes guides to Ohio’s 73 state parks, 65 metroparks and county parks ..."
Natural Acts Ohio(1st Edition) by StephenOstrander Paperback, 241 Pages, Published 1994 by Orange Frazer Pr Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-882203-02-4, ISBN: 1-882203-02-X
"Once upon a time, the Ohio country was a fabulous wilderness of endless hardwood forest by clear-running streams and life-sustaining wetlands. While most of that natural area is gone, naturalist Stephen Ostrander personally conducts you into the best of Ohio's last wild places. Natural Act Ohio is the most thorough, up-to-date, practical hand book to 100 of Ohio's best nature preserves, reservations, and metro-parks, giving detailed dir ..."
""[...]winter upon some broken Marshes and Beaches or bars of sand before mentioned, and might be easily got were there some skilful men would undertake it." Prime (1845) mentions the "remarkable fact in the natural history of this small territory, that of all the land-birds belonging to the United States, either as resident or migratory, two thirds of them are to be found on Long Island; of the water-birds a still larger proportion." ..."
"... R.M. Ballantyne, Frank H. Spearman, Charles Siringo, Stephen Crane, Grace
Livingston Hill, Robert W. Chambers, Frederic Remington, ... Coolidge, Francis
William Sullivan, Marah Ellis Ryan, Forrestine C. Hooker, Charles King, Ann S.
Stephens, Isabel E. Ostrander ... I will not deny, however, but the horses cowered
when I passed them, as though they scented the wolves; and a wolf is a beast
that is ... “You forget the buck at you ..."