General Naturalist

• • Robin Wall Kimmerer, The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World (2024) 
  • Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass (2013)
  • Tom Wessels, Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England (1997)
  • Bernd Heinrich, Winter World: The Ingenuity of Animal Survival (2003) — Also The Trees in My Forest, Mind of the Raven, and A Year in the Maine Woods.
  • Ben Goldfarb, Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Reshaping the Planet (2023) 
  • Ben Goldfarb, Eager: The Surprising, Secret Life of Beavers and Why They Matter (2018) 
  • Colin G. Calloway, The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600–1800 (1990) 
  • Frederick Matthew Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation (2001) 
  • Steven Glazer (ed.), Best of Valley Quest and Valley Quest: 89 Treasure Hunts in the Upper Valley 
  • Mary Holland, Naturally Curious

Reference

• Elizabeth H. Thompson, Eric R. Sorenson & Robert J. Zaino, Wetland, Woodland, Wildland: A Guide to the Natural Communities of Vermont, 2nd ed. (2019) 
• Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape (2010) 
• Rebecca A. Brown (ed.), Where the Great River Rises: An Atlas of the Upper Connecticut River 
• Watershed in Vermont and New Hampshire (2009) 

• • Paul Rezendes, Tracking and the Art of Seeing: How to Read Animal Tracks and Sign, 2nd ed. (1999) 
  • Tom Brown Jr., The Tracker (1978)
  • Mark Elbroch & Kurt Rinehart, Behavior of North American Mammals (2011) 
  • Bernd Heinrich, Winter World (2003) 
  • Sy Montgomery — various — Hancock, NH. How to Be a Good Creature, The Hawk’s Way, The Soul of an Octopus
  • Ben Goldfarb, Eager (2018) 
  • David M. Carroll, Swampwalker’s Journal: A Wetlands Year (1999) — The Year of the Turtle and Following the Water.

Reference List

• Mark Elbroch with Casey McFarland, Mammal Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species, 2nd ed. (2019)
• Linda J. Spielman, A Field Guide to Tracking Mammals in the Northeast (2018)
• Olaus J. Murie & Mark Elbroch, Peterson Field Guide to Animal Tracks, 3rd ed. 
• Mark Elbroch & Eleanor Marie Marks, Bird Tracks & Sign: A Guide to North American Species (2001)
• Louise R. Forrest, A Field Guide to Tracking Animals in Snow (1988) 
• Mark Elbroch, Animal Skulls: A Guide to North American Species
• Jonathan Poppele, Animal Tracks of the Northeast / Bird Tracks (Adventure Quick Guides)
• Ian Sheldon & Tamara Hartson, Animal Tracks of New England 
• James Halfpenny, A Field Guide to Mammal Tracking in Western America

• Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures (2020)
• Eugenia Bone, Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms (2011)
• Doug Bierend, In Search of Mycotopia: Citizen Science, Fungal Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms (2021)
• Long Litt Woon, The Way Through the Woods: On Mushrooms and Mourning (2019) 
• Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins (2015) 
• Lawrence Millman, Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore (2019, Princeton) 
• Britt A. Bunyard, The Lives of Fungi: A Natural History of Our Planet’s Decomposers (2022, Princeton) 

Reference List

• Teresa Marrone & Walt Sturgeon, Mushrooms of the Northeast: A Simple Guide to Common Mushrooms (2016)
• Timothy J. Baroni, Mushrooms of the Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada (2017, Timber Press)
• David L. Spahr, Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms of New England and Eastern Canada (2009)
• David Arora, All That the Rain Promises and More (1991)
• Alan & Arleen Bessette et al., Mushrooms of Northeastern North America
• Karl B. McKnight et al., Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America, 2nd ed.
• Kirsten McKnight Ward, Joseph R. Rohrer & Karl B. McKnight, Folding Field Guide: Common Mushrooms of the Northeast (2021) 
• Lawrence Millman, Fascinating Fungi of New England 
• Michael Kuo, 100 Edible Mushrooms, plus MushroomExpert.com

• • Trish O’Kane, Birding to Change the World: A Memoir (Ecco, 2024) 
  • Joan E. Strassmann, Slow Birding: The Art and Science of Enjoying the Birds in Your Own Backyard (2022) 
  • Ted Floyd, How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding (2019, National Geographic) 
  • Jennifer Ackerman, The Genius of Birds (2016) / The Bird Way (2020) / What an Owl Knows (2023)
  • Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World (2023)
  • Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles (2024) 
  • Scott Weidensaul, A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (2021) 
  • Kenn Kaufman, Kingbird Highway (1997) 
  • Bernd Heinrich, Mind of the Raven (1999) / One Wild Bird at a Time (2016)
  • Rosemary Mosco, A Pocket Guide to Pigeon Watching (2021) 

Reference List

• • David Allen Sibley, The Sibley Guide to Birds, 2nd ed. (2014) 
  • David Allen Sibley, Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America, 2nd ed. 
  • David Allen Sibley, What It’s Like to Be a Bird (2020) 
  • Roger Tory Peterson, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of Eastern and Central North America, 7th ed. 
  • Kenn Kaufman, Kaufman Field Guide to Birds of North America 
  • Stan Tekiela, Birds of New Hampshire & Vermont Field Guide 
  • Nathan Pieplow, Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds of Eastern North America (2017)
  • Donald Kroodsma, The Singing Life of Birds / Birdsong for the Curious Naturalist 
  • Ted Murin & Bryan Pfeiffer, Birdwatching in Vermont (2002)
  • Rosalind Renfrew (ed.), The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds of Vermont (2013) 
  • Merlin Bird ID and eBird (Cornell Lab)
   

• • Tim Traver, Fly Fishing and Conservation in Vermont: Stories of the Battenkill and Beyond (2020) 
  • W.D. Wetherell, Vermont River (1984) also Upland Stream and One River More
  • Robert Macfarlane, Is a River Alive? (2025)
  • John McPhee, The Founding Fish (2002) 
  • David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook (2009) / Trout Reflections (1993) 
  • Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It (1976) 
  • David James Duncan, The River Why (1983)
  • Steven Hawley, Cracked: The Future of Dams in a Hot, Chaotic World (2023) 
  • Martin Doyle, The Source: How Rivers Made America and America Remade Its Rivers (2018) 
  • Mark Kurlansky, Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate (2020) 

Reference List

• Mike Valla, Fly Fishing Guide to Vermont: Complete Guide to Locations, Hatches, and History (Stackpole) 
• Peter Shea & Robert Shannon, Vermont Trout Streams: A Fly Angler’s Guide to the Best 
• Thomas Ames Jr., Hatch Guide for New England Streams (2000, 2026) 
• Tom Rosenbauer, The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide (revised) — The Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams 
• J. Reese Voshell Jr., A Guide to Common Freshwater Invertebrates of North America Barbara L. Peckarsky et al., Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North America (Cornell) 
• Izaak Walton League “Save Our Streams” macroinvertebrate ID cards 
• Vermont Fish & Wildlife Digest / New Hampshire Freshwater Fishing Digest — free, annual 
• The Fishes of Vermont (VT Fish & Wildlife) 
• Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (1653)