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  • Saved in Time

    The Fight to Establish Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado

    by Estella B. Leopold, Herbert W. Meyer ...
    In the summer of 1969, a federal district court in Denver, Colorado, heard arguments in one of the nation’s first explicitly environmental cases, in which the Defenders of Florissant, Inc. opposed real estate interests intent on developing lands containing an extraordinary set of ancient fossils. This book, the first account of the fight to preserve the Florissant fossil beds, tells a story of ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • Soil

    The Story of a Black Mother's Garden

    by Camille T Dungy ...
    A “heartfelt and thoroughly enriching” (Aimee Nezhukumatathil, New York Times bestselling author of World of Wonders) work that expands on how we talk about the natural world and the environment as National Book Critics Circle finalist Camille T. Dungy diversifies her garden to reflect her heritage.In Soil: The Story of a Black Mother’s Garden poet and scholar Camille T. Dungy recounts the seven ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Field Study

    Meditations on a Year at the Herbarium

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    “[A] delightful mix of memoir and field study.” — Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewAward-winning and beloved author Helen Humphreys discovers her local herbarium and realizes we need to look for beauty in whatever nature we have left — no matter how diminishedAward-winning poet and novelist Helen Humphreys returns to her series of nature meditations in this gorgeously written and illustrated book ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tree Collectors

    Tales of Arboreal Obsession

    by Amy Stewart ...
    Fifty vignettes of remarkable people whose lives have been transformed by their obsessive passion for trees—written and charmingly illustrated by the New York Times bestselling author of The Drunken Botanist“I love everything Amy Stewart has ever created, but this book is my favorite yet. I’m giving this book to everyone I know. Because it, like its subject, is a gift.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bees in America

    How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

    by Tammy Horn ...
    "Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept" ( Buffalo News).The tiny, industrious honey bee has become part of popular imagination—reflected in our art, our advertising, even our language itself with such terms as queen bee and busy as a bee. Honey bees—and the values associated with them—have influenced American ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Monster's Bones

    The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

    by David K. Randall ...
    **One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2022A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.**In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield ... Read more

    $18.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Nature Wars

    The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds

    by Jim Sterba ...
    This may be hard to believe but it is very likely that more people live in closer proximity to more wild animals, birds and trees in the eastern United States today than anywhere on the planet at any time in history. For nature lovers, this should be wonderful news -- unless, perhaps, you are one of more than 4,000 drivers who will hit a deer today, your child’s soccer field is carpeted with goose ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The Urban Tree Book

    An Uncommon Field Guide for City and Town

    by Arthur Plotnik ...
    Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers to the trees on their block, in neighborhood parks, and throughout the urban landscape. Unlike traditional tree guides with dizzying numbers of woodland species, The Urban Tree Book explores nature in the city, describing some 200 tree types likely to ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Trees in Paradise

    A California History

    by Jared Farmer ...
    From roots to canopy, a lush, verdant history of the making of California.California now has more trees than at any time since the late Pleistocene. This green landscape, however, is not the work of nature. It’s the work of history. In the years after the Gold Rush, American settlers remade the California landscape, harnessing nature to their vision of the good life. Horticulturists, boosters, and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Reclaimed Wood

    A Field Guide

    by Alan Solomon, Klaas Armster, Michael Arnaud ...
    The first handbook on reclaimed wood, combining useful information, rich history, and home design ideas.Reclaimed wood is a gift from ancient forests and a versatile material. Our ancestors built their homes and barns, warehouses, and factories with white pine and oak from the Northeast and the Midwest, longleaf pine and cypress from the South, and Douglas fir and redwood from the Northwest. When ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nature's Temples

    A Natural History of Old-Growth Forests Revised and Expanded

    by Joan Maloof ...
    An impassioned case for the importance of ancient forests and their preservationStanding in an old-growth forest, you can instinctively sense the ways it is different from forests shaped by humans. These ancient, undisturbed ecosystems are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. Nature’s Temples explores the science and alchemy of old-growth forests and makes a compelling case for their ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Boy Who Loved Ants: Edward O.Wilson

    by Sara van Dyck ...
    *** As a boy, famed scientist Edward O. Wilson spent his happiest days outdoors hunting for fish, snakes, and bugs in Florida and Alabama. Drawing from Wilson's autobiography Naturalist, author Sara van Dyck shows how the shy boy who loved ants grew into the man who became a world leader in nature conservation. He believes that there is always more to discover and has dedicated himself to ... Read more

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