Here at last, is the ultimate guidebook to actual locales that can be driven to for collecting rocks, minerals and fossils in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. The four volumes, with over 1,200 maps, describe over 5,000 specific sites; this Volume 4 includes over 300 to-scale maps marked with over 1,000 collecting sites and detailed directions on getting there, the types of rocks, minerals and fossils to be found at each site, and how and where to search once you've arrived....

The Dreaming Tree is a young adult novel about a boy living in boarding shcool; a boy bullied by others in the school and who is very lonely and misunderstood. While trying to cope with his various problems, he finds solace in the woods and becomes expecially enraptured by a giant old oak, in the hollows of which live a variety of cratures. The boy often climbs to the sturdy uppermost branches where he sits and observes nature around him. On those high branches he also pretends he is many different things and dreams his dreams of what he may one day become....