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Reading Lists

Season Eight (2011-12)
American Chestnut: The Life Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree by Susan Freinkel
The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring by Richard Preston
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Valliant
Miracle Under the Oaks: The Revival of Nature in America by William K. Stevens

Season Seven (2010-11)
Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan
Biophilia by Edward O. Wilson

Season Six (2009-10)
The Star Thrower by Loren Eiseley
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathan Rosen
Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear by William Faulkner
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry  

Season Five (2008-09)
Return to Wild America: A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul by Scott Weidensaul
A Naturalist Buys an Old Farm by Edwin Way Teale
A Country Year: Living the Questions by Sue Hubbell
Flight Maps by Jennifer Price

Season Four (2007-08)
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place by Terry Tempest Williams
The Founding Fish by John McPhee
The Practice of the Wild: Essays by Gary Snyder
John James Audubon: The Making of An American by Richard Rhodes

Season Three (2006-07)
Walking It Off by Doug Peacock
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
The Outermost House by Henry Beston
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan

Season Two (2005-06)
The Mountains of California by John Muir
Field Notes by Barry Lopez
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
The Land of Little Rain by Mary Austin

Season One (2004-05)
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey