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Author Ed Kanze To Lead Hike In White Plains |
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Posted by Westchester.com
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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 Mt. Kisco, NY - He has studied wildlife around the globe but he spent his early years right here in Westchester’s nature preserves, and now the award-winning author and naturalist Ed Kanze will lead a hike to point out and discuss local spring wildlife, Saturday, May 3, 2 p.m., at Cranberry Lake Preserve in North White Plains.
Participants can get a look at birds and amphibians along the hike and enjoy blooming spring wildflowers, as Kanze tells stories of his real-life adventures which range from chasing dinosaur-like reptiles in New Zealand to battling mice in the mountains of New York.
Kanze, who grew up in lower Westchester and used to visit Cranberry Lake as a child, is a former curator of the county’s Trailside Nature Museum at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation. He was instrumental in beginning a systematic biodiversity survey of Westchester County wildlife. He resides in Bloomingdale, New York and works as a writer and licensed Adirondack guide. Kanze has a syndicated nature column called “All Things Natural” and is author of the books Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey; Notes from New Zealand: A Book of Travel and Natural History; The World of John Burroughs: The Life and Work of One of America’s Greatest Naturalists; Wild Life: The Remarkable Lives of Ordinary Animals; and his most recent Over the Mountain and Home Again: Journeys of an Adirondack Naturalist.
Cranberry Lake Preserve, a Westchester County Park, is located at 1609 Old Orchard Street North in White Plains.
For more information about this event call Cranberry Lake at (914) 428-1005.
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