Naturalist/writer plans Cranberry Lake tour
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- April
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Edward Kanza, the naturalist, photographer, essayist and book author, will lead a hike to point out and discuss local spring wildlife at 2 p.m. May 3 at Cranberry Lake Preserve in North White Plains.
And Cranberry Lake, a Westchester County Park, is a familiar to place to Kanze, who grew up in lower Westchester and visited the place as a child. A former curator of the Trailside Nature Museum at Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, he is a writer and licensed Adirondack guide.
In addition to a syndicated column “All Things Natural,” he has written boks including “Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey” (Random House/Sierra Club, 2000), “The World of John Burroughs: The Life and Work of One of America’s Greatest Naturalists” (Random House/Sierra Club paperback, 1999, Harry Abrams hardcover, 1993), and most recently “Over the Mountain and Home Again: Journeys of an Adirondack Naturalist” (Nicholas K. Burns Publishing, 2006)
The preserve is at 1609 Old Orchard Street North in White Plains. For information, call 914-428-1005. or go to the Westchester County Parks’ Web site.





A municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, 






