Books, Birds, Flora and Fauna (lists)

BOOK LIST (Sept-March)

River Notes, Of Wolves and Men, Arctic Dreams and Winter Count by Barry Lopez
Steller's Island by Dean Littlepage
Walt Whitman, A life by Justin Kaplan
The Sea Runner's and Winter Brothers by Ivan Doig
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Singing to the Sound by Brenda Peterson
Unmak edited by Tyler Schlung
River of the West by Robert Clark
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Rains all the Time by David Laskin
The River Why by David James Duncan
Coal by Barbara Freese
The Gospel of Nature by John Burroughs
Founding Brothers by Joseph Ellis
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian and The Gathering of Zion by Wallace Stegner
1491 by Charles Mann
Good News, Black Sun and Freedom and Wilderness by Edward Abbey
Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams
Wild to the Heart and the Ninemile Wolves by Rick Bass
The Unknown Islands by Henry Swanson
Land of Giants by David Lavender
Indian Killer by Sherman Alexie
Green Alaska by Nancy Lord
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Robbing the Bees by Holley Bishop
The Poisonwood Bible, Small Wonder and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Bailey's Cafe by Gloria Naylor
The Living by Annie Dillard
Under the Sea Wind by Rachel Carson
Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Lee Brown
A Continuous Harmony, Recollected Essays (1965-1980) by Wendell Berry
Two in the Far North by Margaret Murie
Cunt by Inga Muscio
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Permaculture Garden by Graham Bell
The Natural Alien by Neil Evernden
Pacifism as Pathology by Ward Churchill
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Ellinore Pruitt Stewart


REFERENCE BOOKS

Birds of the West and Bird Life and Behavior by David Allen Sibley
Ethnography of the Aleutians Edited by Lydia Black
The Sea Vegetable Book by Judith Madlener
Alaska's Animals and Fishes by Frank Dufresne
Between Pacific Tides by Edward Rickets and Jack Calvin
Flora of the Alaska by Eric Hulten
A Field Guide to the Mammals by William Henry Burt
The Alaskan Mushroom Hunter's Guide by Ben Guild
Discovery Wild Plants by Janice Schofield
A Field Guide to Animal Tracks by Olaus Murie
Plants of Alaska by The University of Alaska
Tanaina Plantlore by Priscilla Russell Kari
Plants of the Pacific Northwest by Pojar and Mackinnon
Pacific Seashores by Thomas Carefoot
Botany for Gardeners by Brian Capon
Birds of Alaska by Robert Armstrong
The Seed Starter's Handbook by Nancy Bubel
Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening by Rodale Press
Homebrewing without Failures by H.E. Bravery
Alaska Backyard Wines by Jan O'Meara
How to Knit by Debbie Bliss
Fisherman's Knots and Nets by Graumont and Wenstrom


BIRDS


Horned and Tufted puffins (summer)
Rhinocerus auklet (summer)
Golden-crowned sparrow (summer)
Black-legged kittiwake (summer)
Semipalmated plover (summer)
Peregrin falcon
Bald eagle
Pelagic cormorant
Black-billed magpie
Black raven
Willow ptarmigan
Harlequin duck
Thick-billed and Common murre
Song sparrow
Crested and Least auklets
Bufflehead
Emperor goose
Horned grebe
Common and Yellow-billed Loon
Pigeon guillemot
Marbled, Kittlitz's and Ancient murrelets
Rock sandpiper
Gyrfalcon
Tundra swan
Canada goose
Mallard
Belted kingfisher
White-winged, surf and black scoters
King and Steller's Eiders
Red-breasted merganser
Snow bunting
Red poll
Black oystercatcher
Gray-crowned rosy finch
American dipper
Common goldeneye
Brandt
Gulls:
Bonaparte's and Mew (summer)
Herring, Glaucous and Glaucous-winged




FLORA

Crowberry
Cow Parsnip or Putschki
Salmonberry
Blueberry (highbush and lowbush)
Boletus mushrooms
Fireweed
Swedish Dwarf Cornel
Lady fern
Fragile fern
Bracken fern
Sitka Alder
Monkshood
Wintergreen
Cranberry
Beach Strawberry
Cloudberry
Wormwood
White Paintbrush
Coltsfoot
Willow
Yarrow
Dock
Watermelon berry
Fringe Cup
Pacific Silverweed
Violet
Cotton grass
Blue bells
Heather
Sea Purslane
Dune Grass
Arctic Lupine
Roseroot
Horsetail
Bedstraw
Monkey Flower
Pearly Everlasting
Large-leaved Avens
Angelica
Black Lily
Lambs Quarter
Chocolate Lily
Bladderwrack
Dulce
Giant Kelp
Sea Lettuce
Spring Beauty (claytonia)



FAUNA

Ground squirrel
Red fox
Brown bear
Sea otter
River otter
Harbor seal
Barren-ground Caribou
Masked shrew
Steller's Sea lion
Orca or Killer whale
Minke whale

Gray wolf (tracks only)
Wolverine (tracks only)

Pacific halibut
Yellowfin sole
Pacific cod
Red Irish Lord fish
King crab
California mussels
urchins
sea anemones
chitons (lined, leatherbacks and gumboots)
Purple starfish
Sunflower starfish
Thatched barnacles
other barnacle
Jellys
Purple encrusting sponge
Sand dollar
Clam shells
Scallop shells
Cockle shells
Minute neopolitan snail
Calcarious tube warm