Here are some books that we find useful. We have broken the books into categories; and they are listed title first, alphabetized by author.

Natural History
Cultural History
Educational Resources

Natural History

• An Eclectic Guide to Trees - Blouin, Glen. 2001. Erin, Ontario: Boston Mills Press
• Swampwalker’s Journal - Carroll, David M. 1999. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
• Reptiles and Amphibians - Conant, Roger and Collins, Joseph T. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
• New England Natives: A Celebration of People and Trees - Connor, Sheila. 1994. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
• New England Wildlife - DeGraff, Richard M. and Yamasaki, Mariko. 2001. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Dillard, Annie. 1974. New York: Harper & Row
• Trees of the Northern United States and Canada - Larrar, John Laird, 1995. Iowa State University Press
• New England Forests Through Time: Insights from the Harvard Forest Dioramas - Foster, David R. and O’Keefe, John F. 2000. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
• The Way: An Ecological World-view - Goldsmith, Edward. 1993. Boston: Shambhala
• The Neighborhood Forager - Henderson, Robert K. 2000. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green
• The Trees in My Forest - Heinrich, Bernd. 1997. New York: HarperCollins
• The Nature of Vermont - Johnson, Charles. 1998.Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• The Attentive Heart: Converstions with Trees - Kaza, Stephanie. 1993. New York: Ballantine
• The View from the Oak: The Private Worlds of Other Creatures - Kohl, Judith and Herbert. 2000. New York: The New Press
• A Field Guide to Eastern Forests - Kricher, John and Morrison, Gordon. 1988. Boston: Houghton Mifflin
• A Field Guide to the Familiar - Lawrence, Gail. 1998. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist - Levin, Ted. 1987. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green.
• Blood Brook: A Naturalist’s Home Ground - Levin, Ted. 1992. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green
• Deserts - MacMahon, James A. 1985. New York: Alfred A. Knopf
• Reflections in Bullough’s Pond: Economy and Ecosystem in New England - Muir, Diana. 2000. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• Meetings With Remarkable Trees - Pakenham, Thomas. 1996. New York: Random House
• Tracking and the Art of Seeing - Rezendes, Paul. 1999. New York: HarperCollins
• Ecological Identity: Becoming a Reflective Environmentalist - Thomashow, Mitchell. 1995. Cambridge: MIT
• Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England - Wessels, Tom. 1997. Woodstock, VT: The Countryman Press
• A Selbourne Year: The Naturalist’s Journal for 1784 - White, Gilbert. 1986.Devon, UK: Webb & Bower

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Cultural History

• A Pattern Language - Alexander, Christopher, et al.. 1977. New York: Oxford University Press
• History and Folklore of Post Mills, Vermont - Baldwin, Jessie A. 1983. Thetford, VT: Thetford Historical Society
• Patterns and Pieces - Cole, Luane, ed. 1976. Canaan, NH: Phoenix Publishing
• We Had Each Other: A Spoken History of Lyme, New Hampshire - Daubenspeck, Mary and Russell, Judith G, eds. 2000 Lyme, NH: The Lyme Oral History Project
• In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early American Life - Deetz, James. 1977. New York: Anchor Books
• A Building History of Northern New England - Garvin, James L. 2001. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• The Old Way of Seeing - Hale, Jonathan. 1994. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn - Hubka, Thomas. 1984. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• The Mills and Villages of Thetford, Vermont - Hughes, Charles. Thetford, VT: Thetford Historical Society
• A Short History of Thetford, Vermont - Latham, Charles. 1972. Thetford, VT: Thetford Historical Society
• A Sand County Almanac - Leopold, Aldo. 1949. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and its Symbols, 1650 –1815 - Ludwig, Allan I. 1966. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• In the Memory House - Mansfield, Howard. 1993. Golden, CO: Fulcrum
• Named in Stone and Sky: An Arizona Anthology - McNamee, Gregory. 1993. Tucson: University of Arizona
• A Long, Deep Furrow: Three Centuries of Farming in New England - Russell, Howard S. 1976. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England
• Stonewalls and Cellarholes: A guide for landowners on historic features and landscapes in Vermont’s forests - Sanford, Rob, and Huffer, Don and Nina. 1995. Waterbury, VT: Vermont Agency of Natural Resources
• An Age of Barns - Sloan, Eric. 1967. New York: Ballantine
• The Little Red Schoolhouse - Sloan, Eric. 1972. New York: Doubleday & Company
• The Landscape of Conservation Stewardship - Tuxill, Jacquelyn. 2000. Woodstock, VT: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park
• Field Guide to New England Barns and Farm Buildings - Visser, Thomas Durant. 1997. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England

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Education Resources

• Peripheral Visions: Learning along the way - Bateson, Mary Catherine.1994. New York: HarperCollins
• Keepers of Life - Caduto, Michael J. and Bruchac, Joseph. 1994. Golden, CO: Fulcrum
• Keepers of the Animals - Caduto, Michael J. and Bruchac, Joseph. 1997. Golden, CO: Fulcrum
• Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism of Ordinary Experience - Carse, James P. 1994.San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco
• Ecoliteracy: Mapping the Terrain - Center for Ecoliteracy. 2000. Berkeley, CA: Center for Ecoliteracy