I think it would be really interesting for people to post pictures of
their nature related or otherwise piles or rows of books. I would love
to see the diverse subject matter, the different ways of organization
(or disorganization, in my case), etc. My books tend to pile up beside
my bed and then migrate to nearby corners and shelves.

I'll post some later, if this subject seems interesting.

Jenny

P.S. I got this idea after joining a facebook site that Barry
recommended. You post what books you want to read/have read/are
reading and see who else is reading them.

Jenny,
An interesting idea!
It would be wonderful to perhaps use this discussion thread to do
that. I would like to see what others are reading.
Aleta

I personally would not find this interesting, nor would I look forward to
gobs of photos in my inbox of book shelves or piles of books.

Might I suggest a written listing instead?

Will F. Blozan
President, Eastern Native Tree Society
President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc.

Jenny

On May 17, 12:43 pm, "Will Blozan" <tree_hun...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

Jennifer  posed the question of what is on your bookshelf.  I suppose I must
admit that I am an avid reader.  I have a collection of about 2700 fantasy
and science fiction books.  Beyond that I have a collection of primarily
science books.  So what is on my bookshelf is really a choice of what is on
part of many bookshelves.  I shall list part of one that houses my core
tree-related books among others.  To some degree what is on a particular
shelf is constrained by the size of the shelf and the dimensions of the
books.

1. Last Child in the Woods- Saving our children from nature-deficit
sorder   -by Richard Louv
2. Eastern Old-Growth Forests - edited by Mary Byrd Davis
3. The Wild Trees - by Richard Preston
4. The Sierra Club Guide to the Ancient Forests of the Northeast - by
Kershner and Leverett
5. Peterson Guide to Eastern Forests
6. A Walk in the Woods - by Bill Bryson
7. Natural Pennsylvania: A Guide to Pennsylvainia"s State Forest Natural
Areas - by Chuck Fergus
8. The Power of Trees - by Michael Perlman
9. Wilderness Comes Home (including a chapter by Bob Leverett)
10. A Sand County Almanac - by Aldo Leopold
11. Field Guide to Trees: Eastern Region - National Audubon Society
12. Field Guide to Wildflowers: Eastern Region  - National Audubon Society
13. An Introduction to Tree Ring Dating - by Stokes and Smiley
14. The Flock - by James Robert Smith
15. Digging Dinosaurs - by John Horner
16. The Silent World - by Jacques Yves Cousteau
17. The Catskill Forest: A History - by Michael Kudish
18. Forest Giants of the Pacific Coast - by Robert Van Pelt
19. Baja to Barrow - By Erwin and Peggy Bauer
20. Big Trees of Pennsylvania - Scott Wade
21. The New Yorker Magazine, December 10, 2007
22. Old Growth in the East: A Survey - by Mary Byrd Davis
23. Trees - by James Balog Balog
24. Closeups in Nature -  by John Shaw
25. The Nature Photographers Complete Guide to professional Field
Techniques - John Shaw
26. Cave Minerals of the World - by Carol Hill and Paolo Forti

I suppose I could go on out the shelf.  I chould add to my list books like A
Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawing, and The Panda's Thumb by Stephen
Jay Gould to make the shelf look more impressive.  I do have those books,
they just aren't on this particular shelf.

Ed Frank

Great shelf! There are a few I want to check out.

2 categories of 'reading or to read' books beside my bed (in list
form)

A.  Not gathering dust:

1. The Interrupted Forest, A history of Maine's Wildlands, Neil Rolde
2. Tree: Their Natural History, Peter Thomas
3. Manual of Ornithology, Proctor and Lynch
4. The Geology of NYC and Environs, Christopher Schuberth
5. The Forests and Wetlands of New York City, Elizabeth Barlow

B. Gathering a little dust:

1. Field Guide to the Natural World of New York City, Leslie Day
2. Rebuilding Central Park: A Management and Restoration Plan,
Elizabeth Barlow
3. Washington Heights, Manhattan: It's Eventful Past, Reginald Pelham
Bolton
4. Essentials of Conservation Biology, Richard Primack
5. Native Plants of the Northeast, Donald Leopold

Books I have in common with Ed's shelf:

A Walk in the Woods (********!), Bill Bryson
Field Guide to Wildflowers: Eastern Region  - National Audubon
Society
The Wild Trees - by Richard Preston
Peterson Guide to Eastern Forests

From Ed's list: Am going to look to buy: The Catskill Forest, Sierra
Club Guide to Ancient Forests of the Northeast, and Eastern Old Growth
Forests

There.

Jenny

On May 18, 1:33 am, "Edward Frank" <edfr...@comcast.net> wrote:

I have a couple dozen books on statistical methods, lots of floras and
keys to plant species, numerous books on anatomy and physiology of
plants, and about 30 Ph.D. theses from students that I advised (list
probably not of interest).

More interesting books for ENTS are:
Fire in America, Stephen Pyne
Fire and vegetation dynamics, Edward Johnson
The ecology of fire, Robert Whelan
Forest Fires, edited by Edward Johnson and Kiyoko Miyanishi
Oak forest ecosystems, edited by William McShea and William Healy
Maintaining biodiversity in forest ecosystems, edited by Malcolm Hunter
The ecology and biogeography of Pinus, edited by David Richardson
The boundary waters wilderness ecosystem, Miron Heinselman
A scientists guide to talking with the media, Richard Hayes and Daniel
Grossman
UnderGround, How creatures of mud and dirt shape our world, Yvonne Baskin
The earth moved--on the remarkable achievements of earthworms, Amy Stewart
Plants at the margin, ecological limits and climate change, R.M.M. Crawford
The Thunderstorm in human affairs, edited by Edwin Kessler
The vegetation of Wisconsin, John T. Curtis ( a great classic from 1959)
The vanishing present, Wisconsin's changing lands, waters and wildlife,
edited by Don Waller and Tom Rooney (new this year)

These latter two books show that people from the University of Wisconsin
are always way ahead of everyone else in their views of how the natural
world works, and are thus worth reading regardless of where you live.

I also have the Ancient forests of the northeast, and Eastern old growth
forests.

Lee