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Book cover of Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard, by Douglas Tallamy

Nature's Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard

This book puts together how important insects are to terrestrial food webs and how we can be part of ecological restoration in the place where we live.

Book cover of Firescaping Your Home: A Manual for Readiness in Wildfire Country

Firescaping Your Home

Plant ecologists provide guidance on landscaping for habitat while managing wildfire risk.

Book cover of Amphibians of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia

Amphibians of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia

"North America’s Pacific Northwest is an amphibian biodiversity hotspot, largely coincident with the iconic cathedral forests of the wetter ‘west side’ of the region, but also resulting from the juxtaposition of numerous distinct ecoregions." - Deanna Olson

Book cover of All That the Rain Promises and More: A hip pocket guide to western mushrooms by David Arora

All That the Rain Promises, and More...

This book still lives up to its subtitle as "a hip pocket guide to western mushrooms"

The Merlin Bird ID website, for an app that lets someone identify the birds you see or hear with Merlin Bird ID

Merlin Bird ID

With Cornell Lab of Ornithology's free app, you don't need to carry a bird field guide book on trail anymore.

Book cover of Elwha: A River Reborn by Lynda Mapes

Elwha: A River Reborn

The story of the Elwha River and its ecological restoration.

Book cover of The New Beachcomber's Guide to the Pacific Northwest by J. Duane Sept

The New Beachcomber's Guide to the Pacific Northwest

Our favorite tidepooling identification guide for the Salish Sea and Olympic Coast.

Book cover of Alpine Flowers of the Olympic Mountains by Douglas Houck and University of Washington Herbarium

Alpine Flowers of the Olympic Mountains

A small field guide for the alpine wildflowers of Olympic National Park.

Book cover of Real Gardens Grow Natives: Design, Plant, and Enjoy a Healthy Northwest Garden, by Eileen Stark.

Real Gardens Grow Natives: Design, Plant, and Enjoy a Healthy Northwest Garden

Ecological gardening guidebook for restoring pacific northwest ecosystems

Cover of the book Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain: Washington's Olympic Peninsula

Salmon, Cedar, Rock and Rain: Washington's Olympic Peninsula

An anthology of the Olympic Peninsula by Native and non-Native authors.