Books
Hardwood Bookmark
$7.00
NEW!
Don’t dogear that page! Mark your place with our handsome hardwood bookmark. Measuring 6” by 1”, they are engraved by skillful hands. If you are giving a book as a gift, wouldn’t this be the perfect complement to remind the reader of the beauty and utility of wood from the Northeast?
Kids’ Deal for the Holidays!
$26.00
Who walks the woods with you? If your companion is still in grammar school and anxious to explore, delight that future forest steward with a combination of three Northern Woodlands’ favorites: “Eggs”, “Shelterwood”, and our 10x loupe. Check out the description of each item, then come back here to snag them as a package deal.
Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in New York
$3.00
The Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in New York, is an “owner’s manual” for people who own land in New York.
Our intended audience includes everyone in New York who owns 10 or more acres of land and anyone who believes that, with careful stewardship, the landscape that makes this place so special can support and sustain us for many generations to come.
Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in Vermont
$3.00
The Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in Vermont, is an “owner’s manual” for people who own land in Vermont.
Our intended audience includes everyone in Vermont who owns 10 or more acres of land and anyone who believes that, with careful stewardship, the landscape that makes this place so special can support and sustain us for many generations to come.
Two Lange Books
$27.00
Enjoy Favor Johnson and John and Tom at a discounted price when you buy them together!
Favor Johnson
$16.95
by Willem Lange, Illustrated by Bert Dodson
Favor Johnson lives on a small farm in the hills of Vermont. He keeps to himself, surrounded by dozens of animals, chickens, geese, and his one constant friend, a hound named Hercules. Then one Christmas Eve Hercules’ life is saved by Favor’s new neighbor, Doctor Jennings, and Favor’s whole life – as well as the life of everyone in his village – is changed forever.
John and Tom
$14.95
by Willem Lange, Illustrated by Bert Dodson
Popular North Country yarn-spinner Willem Lange interprets the true tale of a young logger who is saved by his remarkable Morgan Horse after an accident in the woods. Luminous watercolors beautifully convey the mutual bond of love and trust between man and animal, while the warmhearted narrative calls out to armchair readers young and old.
Published by The Vermont Folklife Center; hardbound, 32 pages
Forest Forensics
$14.95
NEW!
by Tom Wessels
Thousands of readers have had their experience of being in a forest changed forever by reading Tom Wessels’s Reading the Forested Landscape. Was this forest once farmland? Was it logged in the past? Was there ever a major catastrophe like a fire or a wind storm that brought trees down?
Now Wessels takes that wonderful ability to discern much of the history of the forest from visual clues and boils it all down to a manageable field guide that you can take out to the woods and use to start playing forest detective yourself. Wessels has created a key—a fascinating series of either/or questions—to guide you through the process of analyzing what you see. You’ll feel like a woodland Sherlock Holmes. No walk in the woods will ever be the same.
Eggs
$16.95
by Marilyn Singer, Illustrated by Emma Stevenson
As different as they are from one another, Marilyn Singer teaches children that each egg is a wondrous world where a developing creature can breathe,grow, and be nourished. Exquisite gouache paintings illustrate an astonishing variety of eggs and the resourceful methods used to protect them. Hardbound, 32 pages
Shelterwood
$7.95
by Susan Hand Shetterly, Illustrated by Rebecca Haley McCall.
Sophie’s grandfather is a conscientious logger from Maine, caring for his woods so that they will last for generations to come. When the child spends the summer with him, he begins to pass on his knowledge, teaching her to tell the different trees apart, what they need to grow and thrive, and about woodland ecology. Four to eight year old children will enjoy reading this book with a adult. 38 pages.
My Side of the Mountain
$6.99
by Jean Craighead George
Every kid thinks about running away at one point or another; few get farther than the end of the block. Young Sam Gribley gets to the end of the block and keeps going—all the way to the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York. There he sets up house in a huge hollowed-out tree, with a falcon and a weasel for companions and his wits as his tool for survival. This Newberry Honor Book award-winning classic intended for readers 9-12 years old, it’s a page-turner for child and adult alike. 177pages.
The Tree & Shrub Identification Books
$36.00
Special Pricing! Purchase both of George W.D. Symonds guides and receive a 10% discount.
The Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in the Catskills
$3.00
The Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in the Catskills is an “owner’s manual” for people in the mountains and valleys that stretch across five rural New York state counties where drinking water for millions of urban New Yorkers originates.
Our intended audience includes everyone in the Catskill watershed region who owns 10 or more acres of land and anyone who believes that, with careful stewardship, the landscape that makes this place so special can support and sustain a vibrant upstate community that’s compatible with watershed protection for many generations to come.
Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in the Upper Valley
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The Place You Call Home: A Guide to Caring for Your Land in the Upper Valley, is an “owner’s manual” for people who own land in the Upper Valley.
Our intended audience includes everyone in the Upper Valley who owns 10 or more acres of land and anyone who believes that, with careful stewardship, the landscape that makes this place so special can support and sustain us for many generations to come.
Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Tracking Guide
$19.95
by Lynn Levine & Martha Mitchell, is a handy waterproof field guide designed to be carried through brush, bramble and snow banks, and emerge unscathed. It uses a novel three-step process to identify tracks and scat of 29 different animals that are commonly encountered in the field. According to expert tracker Paul Rezendes, “This quick and easy to use tracking guide is a great starter for young and old.”
Native and Naturalized Trees of New England and Adjacent Canada: A Field Guide
$16.95
This authoritative guide offers taxonomy, a general description, range, notes on botanical features (leaves, buds, bark, twigs, flowers, and fruit), and a wealth of other information.
Working with Your Woodland: A Landowner’s Guide
$23.50
Working with your Woodland: A Landowner’s Guide, by Mollie Beattie, Lynn Levine, and Charles Thompson. University Press of New England. This book is nice and easy to read, despite being packed with down-to-earth (and up-to-date) practical information. Assessing your woodland for various goals, creating a management plan, understanding management techniques, and harvesting - from deciding on a schedule to handling the proceeds - are all covered thoroughly, with an overall emphasis on carefully tending a forest for the long term.
Reading the Forested Landscape
$18.95
Reading the Forested Landscape, by Tom Wessels. Bill McKibben wrote, “What a fascinating book. Equal parts Sherlock Holmes and Aldo Leopold, it will help thousands of New Englanders answer the questions that come to mind as they wander this landscape of stone walls, stunted apple trees, and towering hemlocks.” We love this one, and decided it was time for it to come back.
Trees of New England
$16.95
Trees of New England, by Charles Fergus. “This book takes up where a field guide leaves off,” says Charles Johnson, former Vermont state naturalist. Trees are listed alphabetically by common name, and Fergus gives a description along range and ecology facts for each one. Information on how wildlife and people use every tree is also included.
The Shrub Identification Book
$20.00
The Shrub Identification Book, by George W.D. Symonds. The companion to The Tree Identification Book. A complete guide to shrubs and other small woody plants.
The Tree Identification Book
$20.00
The Tree Identification Book, by George W.D. Symonds. Tree leaves, bark, buds, thorns, flowers and fruit each have a separate section in this book. If you only have a flower, for instance, you can quickly go to the flower section to identify your specimen. Then you can confirm it by examining all the parts of your tree in the second half of the book, where each species gets detailed treatment. This book was first published in 1958 and has stood the test of time. Over 1500 black-and-white photographs make the trees of the eastern U.S. easy to nail down.
Trees of North America
$14.95
Trees of North America, by C. Frank Brockman. This little Golden Guide has many advantages. The description, illustration, and range map of each species are all in the same place - no more flipping around to get the whole story. It covers the whole continent, and is small and light enough to go on trips with you, fitting nicely in a pocket whether you are in the back 40 or the Tetons.
The Outside Story: Local Writers Explore the Nature of New Hampshire and Vermont
$11.97 40% OFF SALE!
The Outside Story: Local Writers Explore the Nature of New Hampshire and Vermont, gives readers the inside scoop on the local ecology. Two dozen local writers, including Northern Woodlands’ staff and regular contributors, explore a broad range of topics from acid rain to garter snake mating, native fish to exotic ladybugs, deeryards to deer hunting. While the subject is New Hampshire and Vermont, the book appeals to nature enthusiasts across the northeast.