Whether you're walking in the woods, camping, hiking, canoing, or just enjoying your own backyard, this book will help identify all your nature discoveries, including birds, mammals, tress, wildflowers, insects, reptiles, amphibians, fish, spiders, mushrooms, ferns, grasses, even constellations overhead and rocks underfoot it's all here. With authoritative and broad coverage, using nontechnical and lively language and containing more than 2,000 color photographs, this guide is an essential reference for nature lovers living in or visiting the midwest.