How Can I Help?
A Book about Caring

The content of How Can I Help? is fantastic! The ease of reading is meh. The book is chunked into major topics, which helps you hone in on the section you're looking to read about, and Tallamy gives great answers to questions that many of us may have about things like transforming our yards, oak tre......more

I'm a huge fan of Tallamy's work - Bringing Nature Home, Nature's Best Hope, and The Nature of Oaks are all excellent works that speak to the importance of keystone species and the way that the decisions we make about our own yards can make a huge difference in supporting the environment and local e......more

Wow !!! this is a big (over 300 page) book with so much comprehensive information to help in your gardens, yards and help all the birds and animals that might show up. This book must have taken hours and hours of research. It's broken up in large chunks with the chapters being Ecology and evolution,......more

Useful as a reference guide or to skim for topics/issues that interest you most rather than as a read-cover-to-cover book, but I enjoyed cherrypicking the questions and found myself reading more and more of them as I went along. Tallamy is driven and optimistic in his ecology goals--some might say u......more

Doug Tallamy is the best! I would not recommend this for a first time reader of his work. For that I would recommend either Bringing Nature Home or Nature’s Best Hope (both should be read by all homeowners in our nation!) However this was a great, in depth work where he covers almost 500 questions h......more