Master Naturalist Resources

Books that have been recommended by Master Naturalists

  • A Most Remarkable Creature: The hidden life of the World’s Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg
  • Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl by Jonathon Slaght
  • Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle by Thor Hanson
  • Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees by Thor Hanson
  • The Triumph of Seeds by Thor Hanson
  • Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution’s Mysteries Solved by Kenneth Catania
  • Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
  • An Immense World by Ed Yong
  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • The Beak of the Finch by Johathan Weiner
  • The Bird Way by Jennifer Ackerman
  • The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
  • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  • The Wolverine Way by Doug Chadwick
  • A Beast the Color of Winter by Doug Chadwick
  • Rocky Mountain Natural History by Daniel Mathews
  • How to Read Nature by Tristan Gooley
  • What it’s Like to be a Bird by David Allen Sibley
  • A Natural History of the Future by Rob Dunn
  • Mind of the Raven by Bernd Heinrich

Birds

Wintering Raptors

Birds of West-central Montana (Bonham & Carter)

Plants

Peter Lesica’s Plant Families Handout

Angiosperm & Gymnosperm life cycle diagrams

Mammals

Identifying Mammal Skulls (North Carolina)

Key to Common Mammal Skulls (Maryland DNR)

Ecology

Fire Ecology – the Role of Fire on the Landscape

Biogeography (Greg Peters’ talk) – need to upload file