Books
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
$3.00
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
$22.00
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 back 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
$19.95
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.
