Rebecca Lexa - The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go

Mon, 20 Oct, 2025 at 06:00 pm UTC-05:00

St. Louis Public Library - Schlafly Branch | St. Louis

Left Bank Books
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Rebecca Lexa - The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go
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Rebecca Lexa - The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go
Presented by Left Bank Books, the Left Bank Books Foundation & Schlafly Public Library
Join us to help celebrate Rebecca Lexa, certified Oregon Master Naturalist and Missouri native, to discuss her beautiful and informative book The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go. Learn to identify animals, plants, and fungi wherever you go with this step-by-step guide for spotting and recording key traits and characteristics. Become empowered to learn more about the species around you to preserve the world we love.
Lexa will personalize and sign copies after the presentation! Personalized and signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For personalized copies, please order before noon on October 20th.
Join us at Schlafly Public Library
225 N. Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63108
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About the Speaker
Rebecca Lexa is a certified Oregon Master Naturalist, registered Oregon Outfitter Guide, and a writer and educator in the Pacific Northwest. She has a master's degree in counseling psychology with a certificate in ecopsychology, the psychology of how we connect to the natural world. She specializes in helping everyday people learn skills and tools for identifying the animals, plants, and fungi around them and gaining a deeper relationship with nature.

About The Everyday Naturalist: How to Identify Animals, Plants, and Fungi Wherever You Go
Learn to identify animals, plants, and fungi wherever you go with this step-by-step guide for spotting and recording key traits and characteristics.
If you've ever consulted a field guide to identify a new bird at your feeder, you know the process isn't as easy as it sounds. In fact, it seems like you have to know a lot about that mystery bird to even figure out where to start.
The Everyday Naturalist fills in the gaps by explaining what traits to pay attention to when encountering a new species; how and when to use field guides, apps, and other resources; what to do if you get stuck; and more. Rather than focusing on one region or continent, these skills and tools are designed to help you classify nature anywhere you are--whether on familiar territory, traveling, or in a new home.
In chapters about animals, plants, fungi, and organisms like lichens and slime molds, naturalist and guide Rebecca Lexa goes into detail about what sets each of these kingdoms apart from each other--from color, shape, and texture to reproductive characteristics, behavior, and habitat--and includes more than forty full-color photos and drawings to illustrate key points. She also provides detailed case studies to demonstrate how to use all of these traits to identify specimens across multiple kingdoms.
This easy-to-follow guide empowers you to learn more about the species around you, then use what you know to preserve the world you love. And at a time when biodiversity is imperiled worldwide, nature needs more advocates than ever.
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