Ed, Great shelf! There are a few I want to check out.
2 categories of 'reading or to read' books beside my bed (in list form) A. Not gathering dust: 1. The Interrupted Forest, A history of Maine's Wildlands, Neil Rolde 2. Tree: Their Natural History, Peter Thomas 3. Manual of Ornithology, Proctor and Lynch 4. The Geology of NYC and Environs, Christopher Schuberth 5. The Forests and Wetlands of New York City, Elizabeth Barlow B. Gathering a little dust: 1. Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, Leslie Day 2. Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan, Elizabeth Barlow 3. Washington Heights, Manhattan: It's Eventful Past, Reginald Pelham Bolton 4. Essentials of Conservation Biology, Richard Primack 5. Native Plants of the Northeast, Donald Leopold Books I have in common with Ed's shelf: A Walk in the Woods (********!), Bill Bryson Field Guide to Wildflowers: Eastern Region - National Audubon Society The Wild Trees - by Richard Preston Peterson Guide to Eastern Forests >From Ed's list: Am going to look to buy: The Catskill Forest, Sierra Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast, and Eastern Old Growth Forests There. Jenny On May 18, 1:33 am, "Edward Frank" <[email protected]> wrote: > ENTS, > > Jennifer posed the question of what is on your bookshelf. I suppose I must > admit that I am an avid reader. I have a collection of about 2700 fantasy > and science fiction books. Beyond that I have a collection of primarily > science books. So what is on my bookshelf is really a choice of what is on > part of many bookshelves. I shall list part of one that houses my core > tree-related books among others. To some degree what is on a particular > shelf is constrained by the size of the shelf and the dimensions of the > books. > > 1. Last Child in the Woods- Saving our children from nature-deficit > sorder -by Richard Louv > 2. Eastern Old-Growth Forests - edited by Mary Byrd Davis > 3. The Wild Trees - by Richard Preston > 4. The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast - by > Kershner and Leverett > 5. Peterson Guide to Eastern Forests > 6. A Walk in the Woods - by Bill Bryson > 7. Natural Pennsylvania: A Guide to Pennsylvainia"s State Forest Natural > Areas - by Chuck Fergus > 8. The Power of Trees - by Michael Perlman > 9. Wilderness Comes Home (including a chapter by Bob Leverett) > 10. A Sand County Almanac - by Aldo Leopold > 11. Field Guide to Trees: Eastern Region - National Audubon Society > 12. Field Guide to Wildflowers: Eastern Region - National Audubon Society > 13. An Introduction to Tree Ring Dating - by Stokes and Smiley > 14. The Flock - by James Robert Smith > 15. Digging Dinosaurs - by John Horner > 16. The Silent World - by Jacques Yves Cousteau > 17. The Catskill Forest: A History - by Michael Kudish > 18. Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast - by Robert Van Pelt > 19. Baja to Barrow - By Erwin and Peggy Bauer > 20. Big Trees of Pennsylvania - Scott Wade > 21. The New Yorker Magazine, December 10, 2007 > 22. Old Growth in the East: A Survey - by Mary Byrd Davis > 23. Trees - by James Balog Balog > 24. Closeups in Nature - by John Shaw > 25. The Nature Photographers Complete Guide to professional Field > Techniques - John Shaw > 26. Cave Minerals of the World - by Carol Hill and Paolo Forti > > I suppose I could go on out the shelf. I chould add to my list books like A > Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawing, and The Panda's Thumb by Stephen > Jay Gould to make the shelf look more impressive. I do have those books, > they just aren't on this particular shelf. > > Ed Frank --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
