Kentucky's Land Snails A Chronicle of Diversity and Form

About this book

The second edition of Kentucky's Land Snails is updated to include results from a statewide land snail survey conducted in 2019 & 2020 with funding by the Office of Kentucky State Nature Preserves and Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund. The project focused on sampling every county in Kentucky with the assistance of field biologists and citizen science initiatives. This book provides the most up-to-date information about the land snail fauna that occurs in Kentucky and is designed to appeal to a wide audience, from the serious field biologist to the layperson seeking to learn more about the natural world.

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Biography

Dan Dourson is a biologist/naturalist/illustrator who has spent most of his adult life dedicated to the preservation, conservation and understanding of the planet's more obscure species. An employee of the US Forest Service for nearly 20 years, he worked to safeguard a myriad of species including snails, mussels, bats, reptiles, amphibians and other creatures too often ignored or misunderstood. Dan has also conducted biological inventories for the Nature Conservancy, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Kentucky States Parks, Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, West Virginia DNR and has worked for more than a decade studying land snails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, USA as part of the ATBI, Discover Life in America Project.

He continues to work on land snail inventories in eastern North America and is currently staff biologist for Belize Foundation for Research and Environmental Education in Belize, Central America. He has authored or illustrated nearly a dozen books including the recent A Natural History of the Bladen Nature Reserve and its Gastropods, Belize, Central America and remains committed to conservation work protecting Earth's most amazing and unappreciated organisms. His allegiance with the natural world is clearly reflected through his writing and simple lifestyle. He divides his time between the USA and Belize with his wife, Judy. Together, they have three children, Brad, Angie and Tyler and four grandchildren Zach, Tessa, Jude and Callie.