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CHNEP is developing a suggested reading list of books that might help readers better understand the natural environment where we live. Books recommended to date are listed below. If you'd like to add a title to this selection, please send an email message to mhilgendorf@swfrpc.org with the book title, author, publisher, publication date and brief explanation this is a book worth reading. Suggestions will be posted as they are received. Thank you!

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Book Title Book Author(s) Publisher Publication Date Additional info about book Why this book is recommended?
A Land Remembered
American Green - The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn Stienberg, Ted W.W. Norton & Co.Inc 2006 Humurous book on our obsession with the perfect lawn. Steinburg traces the history of the lawn from its explosion in the postwar suburban community to the present romance with turf colarants,
An Inconventient Truth Gore, Al Rodale Press 2006 The Planetary Emerengy of Global Warning and what we can do sbout it.
Fire in the Turtle House Davidson, Osha Gray Public Affairs,Perseus Books 2001 ISBN 1-58648-199-1 (PBK)
Florida Birds:A Handbook and Reference Kale II, Herbert W. and David S. Maehr Pine apple Press ISBN 0-910923-67-1
Land of Sunshine, State of Dreams Mormino, Gary R. University Press of Florida 2005 ISBN 0-8130-2818-3 It has been 500 years since Columbus discovered America. Independence took nearly 300 years, but adventurers steadily claimed the vast lands of the country east to west, north to south, throughout those years. Florida remained stubbornly unconquered by all but a few hardy individuals until very recent history. Post World War II Florida has experienced an explosion of population and development unseen anywhere else in the country. To understand land and natural resource conservation, it is necessary to know the people and politics manipulating them. Mormino's social history from 1950 to today brings clarity to the diverse cultures and issues driving modern Florida. A must read for the environmental activist.
National Audubon Society Field Guide to Florida Alden, Peter, Rick Cech and Gil Nelson Alfred A. Knopf,Inc. ISBN 0-679-44677-X
Paradise Lost University Press of Florida
Peterson Field Guide to Southeastern and Caribbean Seashores: Cape Hatteras to the Gulf Coast, Florida, and Caribbean Kaplan, Eugene H. Houghton Mifflin Co.- Boston ISBN 0-395-31321-X
Seashore Plants of South Florida and The Caribbean Nellis, David W. Pine apple Press ISBN 1-56164-026-3
Stolen Water Carter, W. Hodding Atria Books 2004 ISBN 0-7434-7406-6 Restoration of the Florida Everglades became a National Commitment whe the United States Congress signed into law a bill intended to restore the historic River of Grass
Swamp Song: A Natural History of Florida's Swamps Larson, Ron University Press of Florida ISBN 0-8130-1355-0
The Gulf Coast : Stories from where we live St. Antoine, Sara Milkweed Editions
The Gulf of Mexico: A Treasury in the American MediterraneanStories from where we live Gore, Robert H. Pine apple Press ISBN 1-56164-010-7
The Seaside Naturalist: A Guide to Study at the Seashore Coulombe, Deborah A. Simon & Schuster ISBN 0-671-76503-5
The Swamp Grunwald, Michael Simon & Schuster 2006 ISBN 13:978-0-7432-5105-1 Once reviled as a swamp, the Florida Everglades is now revered as a National Treasure. In the year 2006, $8 billion in federal tax dollars were committed by law to the restoration of this unique natural wonder.