Book List: Books on Restoration, Plants, Botany, Science, etc.

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 04:28:21 GMT

Books on Restoration, Plants, Botany, Science, etc.

Philip A. Munz: A California Flora and Supplement
New to me, have some faith in Munz though. A little disgusted by the 93 Jepson.
Fred M Roberts: A Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Orange County, California
This is helpful for narrowing a plant search in OC.
Munz: A Flora of Southern California
Flora of Southern California
Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac
I really think that Aldo is well worth reading and occasionallyrereading. The depth by which the man was ahead of his time is unreal.
Lynn G. Clark: Agnes Chase's First Book of Grasses
Don Bedunah my range plants prof had this as an optional text.It is good. Read it, learn your grasses, be a better botany geek.
George W. Cox: Alien Species and Evolution
Be carefull, host shifts are evolutionary events!
William T. Stearn: Botanical Latin
I shall read this someday! Really!
H. Wayne Phillips: Central Rocky Mountain Wildflowers
I've met Wayne. He is okay, his books are okay.
Andy Lee: Chicken Tractor
Book about using Chickens in mobile pens to slowly cultivate andfertilize your garden.
Elizabeth L. Horn: Coastal Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Coastal Wildflowers are great, I saw alot of the flowers in this book on my trip to the Redwoods in Northern California last summer.
HarperCollins UK: Complete North American Wildlife
There are a few serious mistakes in the section on plants.
Department of the Army: Edible Wild Plants
I like the global scope on this one.
Gary Paul Nabhan: Enduring Seeds
This is the book I read during college that got me hooked on Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa vegetable varieties. Also on Gary Paul Nabhan as an author.
Arthur V. Evans: Field Guide to Insects and Spiders & Related Species of North America (National Wildlife Federation Field Guide)
Brand new to me. I like how the insect is on the same page as the text. That works well for plants. Maybe insects as well?
Peter Lesica: Flora of Glacier National Park
Botanical Flora of Glacier National Park in Montana. This is really easy to use but the precision could be better. I read it and I think, damn Peter is a genius. However when I can't quite get to species I want Peter to use more precise botanical lingo.
C. Leo Hitchcock: Flora of The Pacific Northwest
A botanical Flora of the Northwest. Condensed Version. AnotherDon Bedunah optional text. Peter Lesica gave me 6 bookmarks for it in 2004 that finally made sense of it.
Oscar F. Clarke: Flora of the Santa Ana River and Environs
I love this new picture book. It is arranged botanically like Flora of The Pacific Northwest, and it has awesome visual botany pictures- especially it does not ignore the grasses. It is brand new but it may become one of my all time favorites!
Nancy Dale: Flowering Plants The Santa Monica Mountains Coastal & ChaparralRegions of Southern California
This is the SAMO book I like the best for pictures.
Gregory L. Tilford: From Earth to Herbalist
Interesting book about using plants as medicine. Please don't dig up my native plants people, its not okay. Lets grow them in our gardens instead okay?
Sally Wasowski: Gardening with Prairie Plants
I was angry for a long time that Sally opinionatedly dissed Montana Prairie cause she couldn't find it, and said Asclepias speciosa is not all that showy. Such vulgar opinions of someone elses beloved prairie! The book is actually a treasure though!
United States Department of Agriculture: Grass Yearbook of Agriculture 1948
This book is awesome! Also, 30 years older than me. I want a hammer mill now.
James R Johnson: Grassland Plants of South Dakota and the Northern Great Plains
Best Grassland Picture Book Ever! I love it! This is an old friend, I checked the older edition out of the library several times. Then my parents went to the Badlands and brought me my own copy of this awesome book and a awesome tshirt.
H.D. Harrington: How to Identify Grasses & Grasslike Plants
Another fine selection by Don Bedunah. Grass- which I shall define as monocots in the Poaceae- is awesome. I have read this now several times.
H.D. Harrington: How to Identify Plants
Don Bedunah again. Very usefull. I reread it last year, and also in 2004.
Arthur R. Kruckeberg: Introduction to California Soils an Plants
New to me, haven't read it yet, Art Krukeberg's daughter Caroline sold me my first Oak tree in 1997.
Philip Rundel: Introduction to the Plant Life of Southern California Coast to Foothills
I got this on Amazon in preparation for my move to Southern California. I read it twice and looked at the pictures alot to learn a few plants.
Kenn Kaufman: Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America
Just purchased. Lots of bugs on same page. Unsure about that. Haven't used it yet.
B. Leroy Davidson: Lewisias
Nice book. Nice pictures. Interesting.
Pam MacKay: Mohave Desert Wildflowers
Got this for my Birthday / Christmas. Trying to learn Desert flowers a little. This is a bad year though.
Dale H. Vitt: Mosses Lichens & Ferns of Northwest North America
Got this in college. Don't use it much. Studied it hard for awhile, most of the names did not sink in, to many Z's and X's
James L. Stubbendieck: North American Range Plants
College text. Usefull, line drawings info.
Dee Strickler: Northwest Penstemons
Got to go to Dee Stricklers house. He gave me an Aquiglia flavescens. Penstemons are nice, I find so many plants at once in the same genus a little overwhelming though!
Ronald J. Taylor: Northwest Weeds
Ronald J. Taylor is a favorite author. This book is nice, I learned a few weeds from it for sure!
Thomas J. Elpel: Participating in Nature Thomas J. Elpel's Field Guide to Primitive Living Skills
Camping without gear. This is informative but not for me. I have spent to much time repairing damage to wildlands.
Hudson T. Hartmann: Plant Propagation Principles and Practices
Book from Tara Luna's class. It is really usefull.
Anne Epple: Plants of Arizona
Seperates the Pictures from the Text. I hate that!
Robert Parish: Plants of Southern Interior British Columbia and the Inland Northwest
Good book, thank you Canada!
Wayne Phillips: Plants of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
Wayne signed my copy.
Linda J. Kershaw: Plants of the Rocky Mountains
Good picture book.
Michael Graf: Plants of the Tahoe Basin
I got this and haven't quite managed to read it yet. The cover is very stiff seems to have a lot of text.
Richard J. Shaw: Plants of Waterton-Glacier National Parks and The Northern Rockies
The good old flower book for Glacier. My sister Julie nearly destroyed her childhood copy by loving it to death.
Jerry L. Holechek: Range Management Principles and Practices
How to Manage Rangelands. Very Important
Douglas D McCreary: Regenerating Rangeland Oaks in California
I love it when a books author hands me a free copy of their book. I read this one strait through. Oak trees are awesome, and Oak trees that grow in Savannah grasslands are super awesome.
Restoring Diversity
This took me a couple of years to read. My brain went numb during the legalize sections.
Thomas J. Belzer: Roadside Plants of Southern California
Usefull, limited size, and not as large as some. I got a really great deal on it on Amazon.com
Ronald J. Taylor: Sagebrush Country A Wildflower Sanctuary
Ronald J. Taylor Rocks! This is one of my favorite picture books ever. It rates right up there with Grassland Plants of South Dakota.
James Lightner: San Diego County Native Plants
Love the Native or Non Native in bright green or red. Hate how several plants species might be included with pictures intermixed. Makes it less valuable. All picture books should have large clear photos clearly labeled with scientific names.
Dara E. Emery: Seed Propagation of California Native Plants
Haven't used this much yet. It will help me grow things though!
Carol C. Baskin: Seeds Ecology, Biogeography, and Evolution of Dormancy and Germination
Tara Luna, plant propagator extroardinaire in Glacier National Park reccomended this book to me, and it is excellent.
James A. Young: Seeds of Wildland Plants
I checked this book out twice from the University of Montana Library, Once from the Missoula public library, and now I own it! Yay, horay Amazon.
Richard Spellenberg: Sonoran Desert Wildflowers
Good picture book
R. Carlos Nakai: The Art of the Native American Flute
R. Carlos Nakai rocks! I get my flute out about once a year and practice the scales.
Robert Zubrin: The Case for Mars
Yep, I am pro Mars. I want to move there and plant it into a diverse grassland ecosystem. In this book, Bob Zubrin does indeed make a good case for the exploration of Mars. His views on plant life are very utilitarian.
The Jepson Desert Manual
I bought this cause I was on a spending spree. Now I need it to rain in the desert okay?
The Jepson Manual
1993 Flora of California I am thinking maybe Munz is better.
Judith Larner Lowry: The Landscaping Ideas of Jays: A Natural History of the Backyard Restoration Garden
I was loaned Judith's first book many years ago. So decided recently to read the new one. It is okay. I want a garden to muck about in again. My land is just getting weedier in my absence!
Sheila Morrison: The Magic of Montana Native Plants
This is a wonderfull book that a member of my chapter of the Montana Native Plant society has written. Also she propagated a number of plants that now grace my garden. Thank you Shiela!
David Allen Sibley: The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
Alan Weisman: The World Without Us
Thought experiment on what the world would be like if us humans all disapear. Nice. I bought it and read it on 7/14/07. I like to think about things like that myself, so it seemed interesting. Not as much as I hoped though.
Elizabeth Pomeroy: Theodore Payne in His Own Words
Theodore Payne foundation is a very nice native plant nursery.Theodore Payne was inspired to begin promoting native plant gardening very early. He also sold alot of Eucalyptus seed- blech. Then again, I have been known to sell common lilacs- blech.
DK Publishing: Trees
I like this book, but it doesn't have enough of the weird treespeople plant here in California.
Robert D. Dorn: Vascular Plants of Montana
Key to the Plants of Montana. My copy is a little ragged for some unknown reason.
Klaus Lackschewitz: Vascular Plants of West-Central Montana
Klaus Lackshewitz rules! He did an amazingly good job on this flora. He totally deserved to have the rare pink Agoseris named after him.
Dee Strickler: Wayside Wildflowers of the Pacific Northwest
Dee gave me a Aquilegia flavescens on a MNPS field trip to his Penstemon garden.
Joseph M DiTomaso: Weeds of California
This is new. It is a brick. Sure to be a favorite. I like how the pictures are labeled. But not how the text intersperses different species- makes it unreadable except for use as a reference.
France Royer: Weeds of the Northern U.S. and Canada
Excellent photos of cotyledens etc. Really worthwhile picture book.
Anne Matthews: Where the Buffalo Roam
Authorized story of the Poppers proposal to create a large Bisonpreserve instead of CRP etc.
Whitebark Pine Communities
Pinus albicaulis. I just want to hike into the backcountry witha bag full of these guys and my planting hoe.
Betty B. Derig: Wild Berries of the West
I found Toyon in here recently. This is a picture book with recipes.
Shannon F. Kimball: Wildflowers of Glacier National Park
This is a Kimball and Lesica production. Very nice. I do feel that Cardamine oligosperma is probably the plant pictured instead of Cardamine pensylvannica, but they are hard to key and I haven't.
Donald Anthony Schiemann: Wildflowers of Montana
Kinda Hum Drum. But okay.
Laird R. Blackwell: Wildflowers of the Eastern Sierra and adjoining Mohave Desert and Great Basin
Nice picture book.
Milt McAuley: Wildflowers of the Santa Monica Mountains
I don't like how the pictures are seperate from the text in thisbook. It is however, very comprehensive.
Laird R. Blackwell: Wildflowers of the Sierra Nevada and the Central Valley
Very nice picture book. It is possible that the Pogogyne douglasii pictured is actually Plectritis ciliosa.

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