America's Wetlands

Discover the remarkable biodiversity of North America's wetland ecosystems with this comprehensive, beautifully illustrated field guide. America's Wetlands takes readers on an exploration of diverse wetland habitats—from freshwater swamps and marshes to bogs, fens, and ponds—revealing how each unique environment sustains different communities of plants and animals adapted to life in these water-rich landscapes.

Through stunning watercolor-and-ink illustrations and lively descriptions, natural science illustrator and writer Marianne Wallace brings wetland life into vivid detail. Each wetland type is introduced with location maps and two-page spreads showcasing the remarkable variety of wildlife found there, from great blue herons and beavers to cattails, cypress trees, dragonflies, and colorful aquatic plants. The book highlights what you might catch your eye along the water's edge or among the reeds, demonstrating the incredible diversity within North American wetland ecosystems.

Marianne Wallace is a nature writer and illustrator who has also worked as an elementary school science teacher, a writer for the US Forest Service, a veterinarian's assistant, and a tour guide at a botanic garden. In her backyard at the base of mountains near Los Angeles, she has witnessed a bear asleep in the oak tree, deer eating fallen apples, a hawk using the birdbath, and squirrels fighting over who gets the most acorns. No wonder she writes about nature. She has a pet tarantula named Tilly.