"Lannoo’s book provides a focused, in-depth account of the work of a prominent and significant group of field biologists from the Midwest. Writing from an insider’s perspective, Lannoo—himself afield biologist from the Midwest—details the careers of men of science such as Frederick Clements, Warder Clyde Allee, Henry Allan Gleason, and Olaus Murie. . . . This Land Is Your Land reminds us of the significant role [this group] played in the history of field biology and, in many complex ways, continue to play infield biology today."

ISIS

“An original, absolutely fascinating book. Lannoo has given us an extraordinary gift: the inspirational story of one hundred fifty years’ worth of field biology in North America and what the ideas and actions of hardworking, brilliant biologists (many with charismatic, dominant personalities) have meant to the world—a global network of natural areas and environmental protection legislation. I predict This Land Is Your Land will be a classic narrative of American field biology far into the future.”

Marty Crump, author of "Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder’s Fork and Lizard’s Leg"

"The author traces the development of American academic institutions, natural history museums, environmental legislation, and government agencies with emphasis on relevance to field biology and associated disciplines (botany, zoology, ecology, and conservation)."

The Quarterly Review of Biology

"Michael Lannoo already proved himself as a careful investigator of historical aspects of the development of awareness of the importance of field biology in Leopold’s Shack and Ricketts’s Lab: the emergence of environmentalism (2010). He now builds on that in broadening it to cover the whole of field biology in the USA in this new work."

Biodiversity and Conservation