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In Search of Meadowlarks

IN SEARCH OF MEADOWLARKS. John M. Marzluff. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut. 2020: 337 pages, 20þ halftone text photographs. ISBN: 978-0-300-23714-6. $28.00 (cloth).—The subtitle of this most interesting book—Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land—gives the prospective reader a good idea of the subject of this book. The author, ornithologist John Marzluff, is a professor of environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington, and this book seeks to capture his research interests over the last two decades. Those, in a nutshell, can be called sustainable agriculture. The chapters of the book take us to a variety of alternative agricultural systems situated in Illinois, Nebraska, Montana, Washington, California, and Costa Rica, in the hopes of demonstrating to the reader that there is a way forward in feeding the planet that does not require destruction of the natural ecological processes that take place on the landscape. Such is an important global objective, indeed. Marzluff sees common open-country birds in decline in examples of traditional productionfocused agriculture, and contrasts this with more environmentally friendly practices that welcome wildlife and that practice what are called ‘‘land