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Inland Northwest Land Conservancy
Book Recommendation List
This is an ever-evolving list of helpful field guides and nonfiction to help us all understand our surroundings a little
better. Being outdoors is so much more freeing and enjoyable when we feel confident in our skills and knowledge. And
it makes being a good steward is so much easier and more comfortable!
If you know of a good field guide or book that should be on this list, please call or email with your recommendation!
Field Guides
Sagebrush Country, a Wildflower Sanctuary
Ronald J. Taylor
ISBN: 0-87842-280-3
Sagebrush country is a land of contrasts – a place of desolation and a place of beauty.
This field guide explored the elegance of the sagebrush steppe as expressed in the
colorful spring and fall flowers and, more subtly, in the wonderous adaptations that
enable plants to withstand the extremes so typical of this harsh environment.
Through color photographs and nontechnical descriptions, Sagebrush Country
introduces visitors and residents alike to the abundant plant life in the land of
bitterbrush and coyotes. This book treats northern Nevada, northeastern California,
eastern Oregon and Washington, southern Idaho, western Montana, northern Utah,
much of Wyoming, and the foothills and valleys of northwestern Colorado.
Northwest Weeds
Ronald J. Taylor
ISBN: 978-0-87842-249-4
Here are the prominent weeds – both the beautiful and the ugly – of the Pacific
Northwest, the northern Rockies, and southwestern California. Illustrated with color
photographs, descriptions of each weed emphasize identifying characteristics and
include information on the origin, distribution, and aggressiveness of each species.
Pacific Northwest Foraging Douglas Deur ISBN: 978-1-60469-352-2 INLC Disclaimer: Please 100% positively identify species before sampling a wild edible plant. Do not DIG or PULL plants as you forage. Stick to limited leaves, flowers, and berries only, please! The Pacific Northwest offers a veritable feast for foragers. The forests, meadows, streambanks, and even the weedy margins of neighborhoods are home to an abundance of delicious wild edible plants. Discover wild lilies with their peppery flowers, buds, and seeds, and use them in your spring salads. Select sweet, succulent thistles or the shoots of invasive Himalayan blackberries and Japanese knotweed to add wonderful flavor to hearty soups. Plants of the Inland Northwest & Southern Interior British Columbia Ray Coupe, Roberta Parish, Dennis Lloyd ISBN: 879-1-77213-183-6 Over 675 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses, and lichens commonly found in the region from the crest of the Rockies to the Coast Mountains, including the interior of Washington and Idaho. Detailed species descriptions are combined with concise drawings and color photographs to make plant identification easy. Highlights include information on edible plants and First Nations uses of plants, a color photo guide to wildflowers, gardening with wild plants, more than 1,000 color photographs and more than 700 illustrations. Whether you are an avid naturalist or an armchair explorer, you are bound to find this beautifully illustrated guide an essential addition to your backpack or library. Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Western North America Roger Tory Peterson ISBN: 978-0-54715-270-7 Accessible, concise, and easy to use, Peterson Field Guides are ideal for beginning and intermediate bird watchers. A cornerstone of the Peterson Field Guide series, this guide uses paintings, rather than photographs, making identification easier. Illustrations, species accounts, and maps are all in one place for quick identification. More than three hours of videos supplement this guide, available on the Peterson Field Guides channel on YouTube.
Peterson Field Guide to Western Reptiles and Amphibians, 3rd Edition Robert C. Stebbins ISBN: 978-0-39598-272-3 This guide covers all the species of reptiles and amphibians found in western North America. More than 650 full-color paintings and photographs show key details for making accurate identifications. Color range maps give species’ distributions. Important information on conservation efforts and survival status rounds out the detailed species distributions. Amphibians of the Pacific Northwest Lawrence L.C. Jones ISBN: 978-0-91451-616-3 More than a field guide, this book is a compendium representing the expertise of more than 30 authors. Introductory chapters provide the reader with a foundation an amphibian biology. Broad context covers the entire Pacific Northwest region from north central California to the Yukon and Alaska and from the Pacific coast to Montana. Includes new species like the California Reg-legged Frog, the Rocky Mountain Tailed Frog, the Wandering Salamander, and the Scott Bar Salamander. Comprehensive coverage shows 47 species with color photos of all life stages. Clear text, keys, maps, and illustrations will guide you to the discovery of the elusive amphibians of the Pacific Northwest. Wildlife of the Pacific Northwest David Moskowitz ISBN: 978-0-88192-949-2 It’s possible to safely see fascinating wildlife – if you know what to look for and if you understand what you see. Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest makes it easier than ever with illustrated descriptions for more than 180 mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. This book is a must-have for nature lovers of all ages and skill levels. Covers Washington, Oregon, British Columbia, northern California, Idaho, and western Montana. Includes silhouettes and track keys for quick identification and more than 200 original scale drawings of tracks and track patterns. Range maps, color photos, species descriptions, and color-coded layout make this a perfect one- stop shop field guide for beginner to intermediate naturalists.
National Geographic Pocket Guide to the Night Sky of North America Catherine H. Howell ISBN: 978-1-42621-785-2 We all gaze at the night sky in wonder – and this guidebook, the ninth in the National Geographic Pocket Guide series, provides a go-to reference for everything filling the dark canvas above us. A basic guide to the solar system, distant galaxies, exoplanets and deep space, satellites and spacecraft, the big bang, meteor showers, and moon phases, this book also features scores of sky and constellation charts for stargazers. Each of the 147 featured topics includes a photograph or exploratory illustration or graphic. Interesting facts and tips throughout offer a quick guide to observing the night sky with the naked eye, from the Big Dipper and the North Star to auroras and eclipses. Western Wetland Flora: An Introduction to the Wetland and Aquatic Plants of the Western United States Steve Chadde ISBN: 978-1-95168-237-8 Western Wetland Flora provides an introduction, in non-technical terms, to the wide diversity of aquatic and wetland plants of the western United States. The book allows students, ranchers, consultants, and others with little or no botanical background to identify the plants found in the region’s lakes, ponds, rivers, marshes, swamps, and bogs. The Flora describes over 300 vascular plant species, both native and introduced, and a number of rapidly spreading invasive wetland plants, such as Kariba-weed (Salvinia molesta). Each species is illustrated with a line drawing, a detailed description, and a county-level distribution map. A simplified key is used to place a plant into one of nine, easily recognizable groups. Pacific Northwest Insects Merrill A. Peterson ISBN: 978-0-91451-618-7 This field guide sets a new standard for insect identification, making it an indispensable resource to naturalists, educators, gardeners, and others. Engaging and accessible, Pacific Northwest Insects features detailed species accounts, each with a vivid photograph of a living adult, along with information for distinguishing similar species, allowing the reader to identify more than 3,000 species found from southern British Columbia to northern California and as far east as Montana. The book features most of the commonly encountered insects, spiders, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, and kin of the Pacific Northwest, as well as representatives of an amazing variety of unusual and interesting insects living in the area.
Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest Steve Trudell ISBN: 978-0-88192-935-5 Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest is a compact, beautifully illustrated field guide to 460 of the region’s most common mushrooms. In addition to profiles on individual species, it also includes a general discussion and definition of fungi, information on where to find mushrooms and guidelines on collecting them, an overview of fungus ecology, and a discussion on how to avoid mushroom poisoning. Includes more than 500 superb color photographs, helpful keys for identification, and a clear, coded layout. This guide covers Oregon, Washington, southern British Columbia, Idaho, and western-most Montana. It’s the essential reference for mushroom enthusiasts, hikers, and naturalists! Mosses, Lichens, and Ferns of Northwest North America Dale H. Vitt, Janet E. Marsh, & Robin B. Bovey ISBN: 978-0-91943-341-0 The classic guide to the bryophytes of the West is back in print! This book brings the small yet beautiful world of mosses, liverworts, lichens, and ferns to those interested in understanding more about their surroundings. These plants are relatively inconspicuous plants which nonetheless play significant roles in the ecology of forests and tundra. Peterson Field guide to Freshwater Fishes, 2nd Edition Lawrence M. Page, Brooks M. Burr, Eugene C. Beckham, and Justin Sipiorski ISBN: 978-0-54724-206-4 There are nearly 1,000 species of freshwater fishes in North America alone, and identifying them can sometimes be a daunting task. In fact, in just the twenty years since publication of the first edition of the Peterson Field Guide to Freshwater Fishes, the number of species has risen by almost 150, including 19 marine invaders and 16 newly established nonnative species. This second edition incorporates all of these new species, plus all-new maps and a collection of new and revised plates. Some of the species can be told apart by minute differences in coloration or shape, and these beautifully illustrated plates reveal exactly how to distinguish each species. This guide includes detailed maps and information showing where to locate each species of fish, whether that species can be found in miles-long stretches of river or small pools that cover only dozens of square feet. The ichthyologic world is not the same as it was only a decade ago, and this edition reflects these many changes.
Non-Fiction and Novels for Naturalists
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate –
Discoveries from A Secret World
Peter Wohlleben
ISBN: 978-1-77164-248-4
Are trees social beings? In Hidden Life of Trees, forester and author Peter Wohlleben
convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on
groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree
parents live together with their children, communicate with them, support them as they
grow, share nutrients with those who are sick or struggling, and even warn each other of
impending dangers. Wohlleben also shares his deep love of woods and forests, explaining
the amazing processes of life, death, and regeneration he has observed in his woodland.
Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter
Ben Goldfarb
ISBN: 978-1-60358-908-6
In Eager, environmental journalist Ben Goldfarb reveals that our modern idea of what a
healthy landscape looks like and how it functions is wrong, distorted by the fur trade what
once trapped out millions of beavers from North America’s lakes and rivers. The
consequences of losing beavers were profound: streams eroded, wetlands dried up, and
species from salmon to swans lost vital habitat. Today, a growing coalition of “Beaver
Believers” – including scientists, ranchers, and passionate citizens – recognizes that
ecosystems with beavers are far healthier, for humans and non-humans alike, than those
without them. Eager is a powerful story about one of the world’s most influential species,
how North America was colonized, how our landscapes have changed over the centuries,
and how beavers can help us fight drought, flooding, wildfire, extinction, and the ravages
of climate change.
Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations, and Climate Change
Daniel Mathews
ISBN: 978-1-64009-135-1
Climate change manifests in many ways across North America, but few as dramatic as
the attacks on our western pine forests. In Trees in Trouble, Daniel Mathews tells the
urgent story of this loss, accompanying burn crews and forest ecologists as they study
the myriad risk factors and refine techniques for saving this important, limited resource.
Scrupulously researched, Trees in Trouble not only explores the devastating effects of
climate change, but also introduces us to the people devoting their lives to saving our
forests. Mathews offers hope: a new approach to managing western pine forests is
underway.
The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest Jack Nisbet ISBN: 978-1-57061-667-9 Between 1824 and 1834, Scottish naturalist David Douglas wandered from New York to Hawaii in quest of promising nursery plants for the London Horticultural Society. He was a complex character whose dogged perseverance delivered a flood of both flora and fauna from the New World. Douglas made forays both on and off the main river routes in the Pacific Northwest, displayed a remarkable seal as he gathered everything from minerals to mammals and horned lizards to band-tailed pigeons. Along the way, he forged relationships with fur trade agents, mixed blood voyagers, and a succession of native tribes who understood the species that he sought. Ancient Places: People and Landscape in the Emerging Northwest Jack Nisbet ISBN: 978-1-63217-080-4 Ancient Places is about the interplay between people and the landscape in the Northwest. Historian and naturalist Jack Nisbet engages some of the iconic images in Northwest history: from fossil riches to ice age floods and from the Willamette Meteorite to the 1872 Earthquake. Although the scale of time and space in some of the pieces is immense, individual characters still manage to leave their marks; even though the force of modern civilization sometimes seems overwhelming, small places and their key components somehow persevere. The Overstory (A Novel) Richard Powers ISBN: 978-0-39363-552-2 The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of – and paean to – the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Power’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours – vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.
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