Teaches comprehension strategies and vocabulary through a study of the achievements of naturalists and scientists including John Muir, Charles Darwin, and Aldo Leopold.
Explores the friendship between naturalist John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt and how it brought about government protection of America's wilderness.
As a young boy first in Haiti and then in France, James Audubon delights in the wonders of nature but on arriving in the United States, he decides to become an artist and draw every bird in North America.