Resource Building - Approved Candidate Book List

Southern California list just approced :slight_smile:

  1. The Mountains of California (Legacy Ed.) by John Muir;
  2. The CA Deserts by Bruck Pavlov
  3. 7 chapters (apps 25–35 in length) from Terrestrial Vegetation of CA by Barbour, Keeler-Wolf and Allan Schoenher (book is 700+ pages, and focuses all over the state so I pulled the few chapters on local trees I am looking into and the local ecology)
  4. An Island Called California by Elma Bakker & Gordy Slack
  5. Geology Underfoot in Southern California by Sylvester & Sharp
  6. Wild Catalina Island by Frank Hein
  7. Introduction to Plant Life by Rundel and Gustafson
  8. A natural History of California by Alan Schneider (well known for natural history it appears as he is all over the field guides for the state)
  9. Fire, Chaparral and Survival in So Cal by Richard Halsey

The first and last ones i an looking super forward to because i feel they are elements of southern california everyone should read lol

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I’m in the Denver Metro/Colorado front range region, and here are the books I’ve had approved so far

  • Wild in the City - Flora and Fauna of Colorado Urban Spaces
  • Bank Balance - Managing Colorado’s Riparian Areas by Chew and Matthew
  • Native Plant Revegetation Guide for Colorado
    From Grassland to Glacier
  • Close to home, Colorado’s Urban Wildlife
  • Roadside Geology of Colorado
  • The Natural West by Dan Flores
  • Steppes: The Plants and Ecology of the Worlds Arid Regions by Mike Bone

I’ll have to pick two more but I figured I’d add what I’ve had approved so far.

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I have 8 of the 9 books so far, approved yesterday. I live in Syracuse, so I chose books on NY and the Finger Lakes Region specifically, when possible.

If anyone has a good recommendation for a book on limnology or NY lakes, that is the type I am still on the look out for!

  • Trees of New York Field Guide (Tree Identification Guides) – April 12, 2022 - by Stan Tekiela
  • The Finger Lakes Region: Its Origin and Nature – March 22, 1988 - by O. D. von Engeln
  • Finger Lakes Almanac: A Guide to the Natural Year - by Margaret Miller
  • Lake Effect: Tales of large lakes, artic winds, and recurrent snows. Syracuse University Press; Syracuse, NY.- Monmonier, M. (2012).
  • A Beginner’s Guide to Recognizing Trees of the Northeast – October 3, 2017 - by Mark Mikolas
  • Smith Woods: The Environmental History of an Old Growth Forest Remnant in Central New York State - by Warren D. Allmon
  • Nature guide to the northern forest: Exploring the ecology of the forests of New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine. Appalachian Mountain Club Books; Boston, MA. - Marchand, P. (2010).
  • New York wildlife encyclopedia: An illustrated guide to birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. Skyhorse Publishing; Battleboro, VT - Shupe S. (2018).

I found a few of these from a post on this forum, so thank you fellow New Yorkers :slight_smile:

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This list helped me a lot, thanks! I’m in Syracuse and moving to near Corning next year, most likely, so some of these were perfect for me!

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Having moved to Minnesota (on a border of the the North Central Hardwoods and Western Corn Belt Plains), I revisited my reading list. Some of these came from the U of Minnesota Master Naturalist program. If anyone is having trouble coming up with readings, see if the local university has such an program as part of their extension services.

  1. Minnesota’s Natural Heritage: An Ecological Perspective by Tester, John R.

  2. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, Natural Heritage Program. 1993. Minnesota’s native vegetation: a key to natural communities. version 1.5. St. Paul, MN: The Program. Retrieved from: https://files.dnr.state.mn.us/eco/nhnrp/nckey.pdf

  3. Minnesota. Scientific and Natural Areas Program. A Guide to Minnesota’s scientific and natural areas. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Dept. Of Natural Resources, Section of Wildlife, Scientific and Natural Areas Program.

  4. Birds of Minnesota Field Guide by Tekiela, Stan

  5. Trees of Minnesota by Tekiela, Stan

  6. Minnesota’s Geology by Ojakangas, Richard W.

  7. Butterflies of the Northern Woods by Weber, Larry

  8. Searching for Minnesota’s Native Wildflowers: A Guide for Beginners, Botanists, and Everyone in Between by Root, Phyllis

  9. Amphibians and Reptiles in Minnesota by Moriarty, John J.

  10. Mammals of Minnesota Field Guide by Stan Tekiela

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You might want to try, "Lakes of New York State: Volume 1: Ecology of the Finger Lakes

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I live in the Appalachian Forest area of Northeast Tennessee, between the North and South forks of the Holston River. This is the reading list I collected.

  1. Woody Plants of Kentucky and Tennessee: The Complete Winter Guide to Their Identification and Use, Ronald Jones and Eugene Wofford

  2. Mushrooms of the Southeast, Todd F. Elliott & Steven L. Stephenson

  3. Southeast Medicinal Plants: Identify, Harvest, and Use 106 Wild Herbs for Wellness, Shane Coreypine

  4. Natural Histories: Stories from the Tennessee Valley, Stephen Bales

  5. Nature of Oaks, Douglass Telamy

  6. Gardening With The Native Plants Of Tennessee: The Spirit Of Place, Margie Hunter

  7. Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America, E. Lucy Braun

  8. Identifying Trees of the East, Micheal Williams

  9. Guide to the Vascular Plants of Tennessee, Edward Chester

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Wow, this looks like a great resource! Thank you for finding this!

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No problem. I am happy to help! :smiley:

Here are my 9. I just got approval last week, Jan. 1. Im in SE Ohio, Trans-Allegheny Region.

Ohio Hill Country: A Rewoven Landscape by Carolyn V Platt,

Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio Natural Landscape by Deborah Fleming,

Letters from Home: A Year at Home in the Woods by Julie Zickenfoose,

Idle Weeds. The Life of a Sandstone Ridge by David Rains Wallace,

Creatures of Change: An Album of Ohio Animals by Carolyn V Platt,

Wild Ohio: The Best of our Natural Heritage by Jim McCormac and Gary Meszaros,

Near Woods: A Year in an Allegheny Forest by Kevin Patrick,

Trees of Ohio: A Field Guide by Stan Tekeila,

50 things to know about birds in Ohio : birding in the buckeye state by Grant M. Evans.

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That’s exciting! I think I saw another member say they lived near Albany. It would be neat if maybe we could plan something for the summer solstice when the weather is more cooperative.

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Thanks this helps a lot. Just south of Knoxville here.

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Here are the nine approved books for my study. I live in SW Ohio in the Loamy High Lime Till section of the Eastern Corn Belt Plains.

A Peterson Field Guide To Eastern Forests by John Kricher

The Woods: The Natural History of an Acre in Southwestern Ohio by Carol Trosset

Forest Types of Southwest Ohio and Southeast Indiana: A methodology for identifying, projecting, and restoring our 8 local forest types by Indigenous Landscapes

Trees of Ohio Field Guide by Stan Tekiela

Know the Natives: Native Ohio Plants by Colin Ross

Moods of the Ohio Moons: Outdoorsman’s Almanac by Merrill C. Gilfillan

Natural History of the Cincinnati Region by Stanley Hedeen

Ohio’s Natural Heritage by Michael B. Lafferty

Minerals of Ohio by Ernest H. Carlson

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These books were approved for southeast Wyoming

1.Mountains and Plains: The Ecology of Wyoming Landscapes / Edition 2 by Dennis H.
Knight, George P. Jones, William A. Reiners, William H. Romme
2.Plants of the Rocky Mountains by Linda Kershaw, Jim Pojar, and Andy MacKinnon
3.A Peterson Field Guide To Western Medicinal Plants And Herbs by Christopher
Hobbs and Steven Foster
4.Ancient Landscapes of Western North America: A Geologic History with
Paleogeographic Maps by Ronald C. Blakey , Wayne D. Ranney
5.Birds of Wyoming Field Guide: Includes Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks by
Steven Tekiela
6.Ice, Fire, and Nutcrackers: A Rocky Mountain Ecology by George Constantz
7.Medicinal Plants of the Western Mountain States by Charles W. Kane
8.Rocky Mountain Natural History: Grand Teton to Jasper by Daniel Mathews
9.Meet the Natives: An Easy Way to Recognize Rocky Mountain Wildflowers, Trees,
and Shrubs by M. Walter Pesman. 1952.

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Thank you all who posted, this is really helpful!

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I live in Middle Tennessee, in the Sequatchie Valley region, and so far I’ve gotten these books approved:

Wildflowers of Tennessee
Jack B. Carmen

Identifying Trees of the East: An All-Season Guide to Eastern North America.
Michael D. Williams

Guide to Vascular Plants of Tennessee
Tennessee Flora Committee

Tennessee Wildlife Viewing Guide
Gary L. Graham and Paul Hamel

Butterflies of Tennessee
Rita Venable

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I live on the Nevada side of your divide and I have been thinking about Sage Brush Ocean so I am happy to hear a good review for it!

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Thanks for posting, I’ll be restarting soon (long story) and i remember having a difficult time finding books for my bioregion (south central Idaho, about 45 minutes from Jackpot, Nevada). Possibly some of these may work for me as well.

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Hey there! I’m in Wells, NV, so same geo-region. I can send you my book list and see if any look interesting to you!

Great Basin Wildflowers by laird Blackwell
Shrubs of the Great Basin by Hugh Mozingo
Mule Deer Country by Valerius Geist

These are the only ones I can remember off the top of my head.

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Thanks that’s amazing! I try to get what I can from the library, my shelves are already overflowing :smile:

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