There are a number of seminal places in the history of the American environmental conservation movement. On the east coast, the...

I highlight here what I consider to be most important, unique and “collectible” books impacting the environmental conservation movement,...

This website and the Collection which it documents naturally focuses on the written word. The importance of images in driving public...

The history of the early environmental conservation movement in the decades around the turn of the 20th century is, to a meaningful...

The post-Civil War years saw the four multi-year "great surveys" of the western U.S., all sponsored or funded at least to some extent by...

I had the pleasure last week of again attending the John Burroughs Association awards luncheon honoring the best nature writing of 2023. ...

The development of forestry as an independent discipline in the US is intertwined with the early years of the environmental conservation...

One of the joys of this whole project has been learning about so many extraordinary people who had meaningful impacts on our world. I...

I first read Walden probably 25 years ago - in the late 90’s - before kids. It blew me away. Walden deserves its place at or near the...

I've just finished reading Carol Grant Gould’s outstanding 2004 biography of William Beebe (Island Press) - The Remarkable Life of...

On Saturday Sept. 2, 2023, my wife and I finally visited Woodchuck Lodge, the farmhouse where John Burroughs spent summers during the...

Ann LaBastille's Woodswoman (1976) is a favorite book of mine - one I discovered directly as a result of this project. Yesterday, my...

There is a lot of material on this website - to say the least. A friend suggested that I make some sort of effort to provide readers a...

I just acquired and catalogued a copy of Florence Merriam Bailey's magnum opus Birds of New Mexico (1928), a large, heavy tome that, as...

It is an undeniable fact that the Collection consists disproportionately of works by (white) men. I address this elsewhere - it is a...

I had the privilege of attending the John Burroughs Association (JBA) annual luncheon yesterday (4/3/23), where they confer the...