The Natural Histories Project

Natural history is a practice and a body of knowledge. It can be both a personal path and a professional undertaking. It has been given many definitions and can be claimed by no single discipline or knowledge holder. And yet, there are consistent elements in definitions collected from a wide range of practitioners, from poets to ecologists, geologists to expeditionary artists, resource managers to science teachers: Attention to and representation of nature, a focus on patterns observed at the organismal to landscape level, the value of accuracy.